Ha forgot, to be clear: Atlassian uses its own modified version of OFBiz, for more than a decade...
> Hi Nick,
>
> Please answer rather on the ML than directly to me. You will get a better support, people can answer you on the ML. The wider the audience the
> better the answers you might get.
>
> This is how Atlassian see OFBiz through Jira where it's used from start of the product (mostly through the Entity Engine, but not only as shows your
> link)
>
> This is not how the OFBiz community see OFBiz. You may refer to
https://ofbiz.apache.org/ and get info from there...
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 15/12/2020 à 13:33, Nicholas a écrit :
>> Hi Jacques,
>>
>>
>> not sure that I quite follow. I suppose I'd expect (most) of ofbiz to be an API or library, where you simply add dependencies through gradle:
>>
>>
>>
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.ofbiz>>
>>
>> but, generally at least, these are compiled from source?
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/15/20 2:59 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>> Hi Nick,
>>>
>>> It's recommended by the ASF and easier for the Release Manager:
http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html>>>
>>> So we decided so when/by introducing Gradle
>>>
>>> Feel free to contribute a "hello world" app, in the form of a Gradle task, if you like.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>> Le 14/12/2020 à 22:26, Nicholas a écrit :
>>>> I was looking at the doc's, which have this command:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For Linux/Mac: $ ./gradlew pullAllPluginsSource
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> which makes me wonder whether perhaps it might not make more sense to write a "hello world" app which downloads any dependencies as already built
>>>> JAR's rather than compiling from source?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why the need to compile the packages?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Nick
>>>>