This is possible with Maven 2.x (the Maven libraries certainly do it already) - what will be important is ensuring that projects themselves utilise this functionality.
- Brett On 11/7/05, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > recently I came into a situation where I suspected a bug in > servlet-api-2.4.jar. No problem, it seems: This is open source software, > get the sources, add them to you Eclipse project and start debugging. > > It turned out not so easy: For starters, what are the exact sources of > servlet-api-2.4.jar? Do I need to get a particular version of Tomcat? Do > I need to checkout a certain svn or cvs tag? I've been losing about 3 > hours to get the debugger up and running. (Of course, it turned out, > that the bug was on my side, having read the specification wrong.) > > My personal conclusion is this: It is a bad thing, that we do not > distribute the sources together with the jar files. Of course, there are > cases where the license forbids. But at least for ASL licensed jar > files, it ought to be absolutely no problem to add the sources to ibiblio. > > Additionally, one might request downloads for the source files in order > to make eclipse:eclipse mount them automatically. > > > What do you think? > > > Jochen > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
