: This prompts the question (in my mind anyway): should source releases include third-party binary jars?
if i remember correctly, the historical argument has been that this way the source release contains everything you need to compile the source. except that if i remember correctly (and i'm very tired at the moment) there are some contribs that won't compile without downloading additional jars (bdb?) so really the jars included in the source release artifacts just represent the jars that *can* be included in the source release. Not to dredge up maven/ivy dependencay management arguments -- but even if we wanted to be certain we were compiling specific versions, without depending on any special dependencay managment system/repo we could just have the source releases download the jars from our own site so people who don't care about compiling those contribs can get smaller source distributions. ...but i doubt it's worth trying to tackle before 2.9. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
