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Drop binary distribution #411

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reckart opened this issue Nov 18, 2024 · 0 comments
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Drop binary distribution #411

reckart opened this issue Nov 18, 2024 · 0 comments
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reckart commented Nov 18, 2024

Describe the refactoring action
No longer prepare a binary distribution.

Expected benefit

  • The UIMA JARs are likely to be mostly consumed via Maven Central these days.
  • For the installation of the Eclipse Plugins, we have our update site
  • Documentation is available on our website
  • We need to check and update the license and notice files of all the third-party JARs we include in the binary distribution. This takes a lot of time. Having no binary distribution removes this to some degree (we still have the problem with third-party JARs embedded in the Eclipse plugin JARs - but maybe we can do without embedded JARs in the future and pull things in via OSGi at runtime).
  • The build includes various quirks in particular in the UIMAJ root POM to handle the binary distribution in the way it is currently built. These can be removed.

Drawbacks

  • A good part of the installation instructions of our documentation gets outdated then and needs to be updated or removed.
  • In particular the descriptions of the examples assume a binary distribution. We need to switch things to the source distribution.
  • Scripts and apps such as cpeGui.sh or runV3migrateJCas.sh are not longer conveniently accessible. That said, I doubt there are (m)any people using those.
@reckart reckart added the ⚙️ Refactoring Improvement for development or maintainability label Nov 18, 2024
@reckart reckart added this to the 4.0.0 milestone Nov 18, 2024
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