mkabbasi / cleartk

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remove ClearTK download #403

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
I'd like to suggest that we quit distributing a one-stop-shop zip file for the 
2.0 release.  For users who can not use maven for building their project for 
whatever reason, we should provide instructions for how to build the zip file 
themselves using maven.  Presumably if they are savvy enough to attempt to use 
ClearTK, then they can follow some instructions for using maven once to build 
the file.  

Now as I write this up I observe that it has been downloaded 400 times! Any 
thoughts?

If we decide to do this, then we need to update the UserSetup wiki. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by phi...@ogren.info on 12 Apr 2014 at 6:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
I think it's fine to stop generating the .zip distribution. After updating 
UserSetup, we should also remove the corresponding code out of the release 
pom.xml.

Original comment by steven.b...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2014 at 5:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Google Code has stopped supporting downloads for projects as described here:

https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DownloadsFAQ

They encourage you instead to host download files on Google Drive.  It does not 
seem clear to me that we can have a ClearTK account.  It seems the intention is 
to use a personal GD account.  This seems a bit silly.  

If we decide to simply provide instructions on how they can build their own zip 
file, then they will look something like this:

> git clone <url>
> git checkout <tag>
> cd cleartk-zip
> mvn archive:single

This seems a bit lame only because a "clone" command requires downloading the 
entire repo, which just seems a waste of carbon.  I'm going to investigate the 
possibility of just exporting/downloading the cleartk-zip project and running 
maven from that.  After all, it shouldn't need anything else.

Original comment by phi...@ogren.info on 13 May 2014 at 3:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Ok - here are some instructions that I think are acceptable.  From the command 
line do the following:

> mkdir cleartk-zip
> cd cleartk-zip
> wget https://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/cleartk-zip/pom.xml
> wget https://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/cleartk-zip/zip.xml
> mvn assembly:single
> ls target/cleartk-2.0.0-bin.zip

Original comment by phi...@ogren.info on 13 May 2014 at 3:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
I have added these instructions to the UserSetup wiki and updated the 1.4.1 
download description (and removed the "featured" label so it no longer appears 
on the front page).  

Original comment by phi...@ogren.info on 13 May 2014 at 3:23