I guess the tone wasn't obvious, I wasn't being serious.  Although, I remember 
"back in the day" when Spring used to package a bunch of dependencies in their 
own downloads.  That was much easier to deal with.  Ah well..

-- 
Lou

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:19:54 +0000
Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote:

> And what's wrong to download the jars from Maven central (You can do that 
> manually by clicking in a browser)
> http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.apache.flex.blazeds%22
> 
> I could come up with a binary assembly, but you were the first to request 
> this ... so all the others seem to be ok with this :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: Lou <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. April 2016 06:01
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: AW: BlazeDS, GraniteDS
> 
> Yes I was pleased to learn that Gradle can use Maven repos.  So what's wrong 
> with downloading some jars yourself, not tough enough eh?  That's old school, 
> good stuff!  haha
> 
> --
> Lou
> 
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:08:06 +0000
> Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Well Gradle actually does use Maven repositories for resolving artifacts 
> > and you can easily use Ant+Ivy to resolve artifacts using Ant as well, so 
> > the distribution path of using Maven-Central is the only option that 
> > services all popular build tools at once. Of course, if you don't have 
> > internet, that's a problem. But then downloading a zip of jars should be 
> > equally challenging ;-)
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Von: Lou <[email protected]>
> > Gesendet: Montag, 18. April 2016 06:56
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: Re: BlazeDS, GraniteDS
> >
> > Well I'm not complaining (okay, I suppose I was a little), but there are 
> > probably cases where Maven/Ant aren't being used (Gradle?), although Ant is 
> > fairly universal.  There are definitely cases where these tools cannot 
> > connect directly (think secure corporate networks with aggressive firewall 
> > rules, or even no Internet access at all).  It would be the preference for 
> > us (w/MD5s of course), but I understand the challenges.  The assumption 
> > that everyone is using Maven and can build themselves is far better than 
> > "nobody cares" enough for binaries!
> >
> > --
> > Lou
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:18:26 +0000
> > Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/16/16, 3:34 PM, "Lou" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I noticed that Apache doesn't do convenience binaries for Blaze (is it
> > > >due to infrequent use?)
> > >
> > > Do you mean a package of files similar to how Adobe shipped BlazeDS?  I
> > > think we thought just about every BlazeDS user was using Maven.  Anyone
> > > who prefers the package of files please speak up.  We can certainly
> > > release a similar package of files, but in theory, you can also build that
> > > package yourself.  I think the Ant files are in the source package to
> > > create a similar package, and if not, maybe you can help us make it so.
> > >
> > > Let us know if you can't use Ant to build such a package.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Alex
> > >
> >
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