Hi, > It's generally not a good idea to have jar files in scm, but is > it policy that they cannot be in an ASF git repository?
Not policy but generally frowned upon - there are a couple of projects that do have some jars in version control. It’s certain the exepction to the rule. > An xml file would be much better for the reasons you mention. Unfortunately > intellij and netbeans decided to provide their settings as archives and > make life difficult for us! What is the issue with compiling the XML file into a jar at build time? That seems straight forward to me and solves all issues. Thanks, Justin
