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David Jencks commented on AMQ-1040:
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IMO apache policy requires distributing a source archive containing all the
source and the means to build the project as the primary component of a
release. Since apache releases source code, this shouldn't have any derived
binary artifacts in it. Given this required source archive, I don't see the
point in also putting the source into any binary packages, and I would not
support doing so. I'll also note that in my experience per-module source jars
are useful in IDEs and entire-project source archives are not.
> Full src-jar distributed with binary
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>
> Key: AMQ-1040
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1040
> Project: ActiveMQ
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 4.1.0
> Environment: n/a
> Reporter: Endre Stølsvik
> Assignee: Rob Davies
> Fix For: 5.4.0
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> Attachments: pom.xml.diff.txt
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> For absolutely all developers (extrapolating from one person, myself), a
> src-jar that comes with the "bin" distribution makes the world a better place
> to live.
> With a src jar, you only add the full jar, "attach" the src-jar, and you're
> _rellay_ good to go both developing but not least stack-tracing and
> debugging. The src-jar should include sources for most of the stuff that
> actually reside in the full jar, if not all.
> Eclipse: if you include the "full jar", it's slightly problematic to include
> a whole bunch of dirs from the src-distro. You'll end up having to include
> all those lib jars, and on each of them put the corresponding src dir.
> The whole thing won't bloat the distro very much - but will relieve very many
> developers from having to download the extra distro, and from the annoyance
> of not being able to just configure one simple jar with src-attachment.
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