On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > To do exactly what you suggest, all we need to do is revert my change; > the build-helper-maven-plugin is already a way to add a directory to > the source roots via pom config. > > However, I have a more complex idea to offer you: > > Maybe redundancy is not redundancy. > > We tell users: If you want to just produce sources to include in the > build, you use my new top-level property as the single source root, > and we will add it to the build, and all will be well. If you want to > do something more complex, you can use the older scheme, and it's up > to you to arrange for it to compile, perhaps using the > build-helper-maven-plugin. > > To make this really painless, we'd need one more boolean property: > useOutputDirectory. Default is false, preserving old behavior. Set to > true, gets new behavior, respecting new property. > > WDYT? I can see your logic. OK, since you're the one with the active use case, and since no-one has commented at all on users@, I'm in favour of you proceeding as you suggest.
Any one else? Ian
