On 10/29/06, Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I analyzed couple of Apache project's source releases and there seems to
be no consensus on what is to be included in a source release.
Ant, for example, releases docs also with their source release, while
Tomcat ships only the sources and scripts.
How about not shipping the source release at all (I know this is
radical, but let me explain). Who will make use of the source release?
Can we expect them to be some users who are bit advance than just
downloading stuff and using it? If yes, then how about not releasing a
source distro and giving instructions on how to check out , the proper
release sources, from maven?
I don't think it is a good idea not to release the source since IMHO
users who use the source distro are NOT necessarily advanced users.
For example if one wants to attach the source to his/her IDE so that
the he/she will be able to see proper javadoc comments prompted while
coding, that person should simply be able to do that with one step.
That will sort out scripts issues and legal issues and we have less
artifacts to test with. This is just an idea came to my mind and like to
know your opinion on this.
-- Chinthaka
Thilina Gunarathne wrote:
> But there comes a small issue with the docs target, since we are not
> shipping the xdocs folder...
>
> Other than that we can get the dist-bin & war goals to work.. Already
> I'm working towards that goal...
>
> Thanks,
> Thilina
>
> On 10/29/06, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thilina,
>>
>> We've been lax with the source dist in the past....Anyone should be
>> able to unzip our source dist and run "maven release" to regenerate
>> the dist. Please make sure you check that.
>>
>> thanks,
>> dims
>>
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>> Davanum Srinivas : http://www.wso2.net (Oxygen for Web Service
>> Developers)
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