PS...
buildable source distribution is a requirement for an ASF release, but
the build phase does not have to be a single command, as long as you
can build the same artifacts somehow , it's fine.
Yes - and it works great if we stick with the existing multi-module
release. But if we switch to release by bundle you will get the source
for each bundle fine, if you want the source for the _whole module_ in
a distro it's very hard. If the distro can just be a collection of
released bundles (jars) that we know work together - that is easily
done. Does that make sense?
If your last sentence means that you would be happy to build each module
separately- then we don't need a module source zip. That would be much
easier. I think anyone who wants to build and modify the whole module
could quite easily grab the source from SVN, of if they were trying to
build an old release, they'd just have to build the bundles separately -
or write their own top level pom. I suppose building each one separately
might be a bit of a pita for application :-/
Z
