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Taher Alkhateeb commented on OFBIZ-7783:
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To my understanding, and as per your feedback, a binary release is one which you do not need to compile. So what would it be useful for? It would be things like:
- A desktop application that you just want to download and run
- A server application with complex setup requirements
What are the requirements in OFBiz?
- Install Java
- ./gradlew loadDefault ofbiz
So I would think that such releases are unnecessary because:
- There is very little required for OFBiz to run, just install java
- The type of adopters for this kind of software are more than capable of running gradle commands.
- You can't ship a binary with the correct requirements. Do you load default data? Do you load minimal seed data? And what do you do with the build tools? Strip them away? That does not sound suitable as is the case with Desktop applications for example.
Too much complexity for no added value in my opinion.
> External library files are not in the OFBiz folder structure.
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> Key: OFBIZ-7783
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7783> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Pierre Smits
> Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Upcoming Branch
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> With the implementation of the external library download feature of gradle/gradlew, the external libraries (jar files) are not in the folder structure any more.
> They should reside there, like before.
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