Ralph Goers wrote: > That's the problem. With snapshots you cannot reliably do that. You can > only reliably get the matching source if the repository was tagged at the > time it was extracted. Furthermore, I have had difficulty in the past > finding and getting access to source repositories. Some projects seem to > move around. > > However, as long as Cocoon doesn't ship releases with snapshots this isn't > as important to me as I will only be deploying from formal Cocoon > releases.
(It is getting very difficult to follow this important discussion over various different email threads.) Even with formal releases of third-party jars, the sources might not be available when we want them. I know this idea might not be possible, but let us throw it into the melting pot anyway ... http://archive.apache.org/ Could we add a source tarball of every third-party archive that we rely upon? Then we could have a generated page similar to our http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/installing/jars.html which provided easy access to those. Developers would consult their local copy of that table. -- David Crossley
