Marshall Schor wrote: > Our main approach to packaging source files is to use Maven's assembly > plugin. > > The Lucas project includes in its build section of its POM the > maven-source-plugin execution. > > This results in generating 2 additional Jars - for the sources and the > test-sources, and "attaching" them to the generated artifact. > > We could do this for all of our Jars, and I'm thinking this would be a > good idea. One reason would be it would align us slightly better with > the "maven way" of doing things. When users download jars from maven > they would find the sources rather than get maven warning messages that > no sources were found, and the m2eclipse plugin would easily be able to > get the sources. > > If we did this, I think we would still ship the sources distribution, > but building it might be easier. > > Should we adopt this approach? > > -Marshall
+1 We must still ship a source distribution as it is considered the primary distribution by Apache. Everything else is convenience. --Thilo
