I think this is probably a good idea from a base "simplest use case" viewpoint;
If I come along and just want to try out something in Mahout as quickly as possible, I could download the jars and give something a quick try. If it works out for me, then that draws me further into thinking out looking at the actual source code and possibly contributing later down the road. Datamining, Hadoop, et al are complex enough for the average user --- why not provide an option that caters to the casual crowd and lowers that barrier to entry just a little? Its trivial to offer the jars and the rest of us can continue to use Maven/Ant to build as we like. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Jake Mannix [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: download mahout-0.2 release So another thought on this: should we just provide jars as part of a distribution via a simple link on lucene.apache.org/mahout? So that people don't need to build from source? I mean, if we want to include artifacts, why not just put them on the site for download? -jake On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 here too -- I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-215to > track it. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, F.Ozgur Catak <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > +1 :) > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah I think we should just include the .jars next time for > > > > > convenience. > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > > > +1 from me as well. > > > > > > -jake > > > > > >
