When I need to use Mahout on a real Hadoop cluster rather than on my longsuffering laptop, I use systems which are not well set up for compiling Mahout from source - i.e. they lack Maven, Subversion etc.
On a good day, this is fine, I can just unpack mahout-distribution-0.7.tar.gz or whatever and use a standard release. But when I want to try a custom version, with my own fixes/experiments or with patches applied, the ideal workflow isn't obvious to me from https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/buildingmahout.html (and https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-release.html wasn't obviously applicable either; the mvn commands there don't like local modifications, amongst other things). Previously I've tried uploading jars built with 'mvn package', alongside bin/mahout, or zipping up the whole thing by hand. Presumably the answer is obvious to those who spend more time in Maven. I see 'mvn package' produces jars but no distribution .tar.gz. What is everyone else doing? Thanks for any pointers, Dan
