I took a look at maven's mailing list. Their approach to this is to have a POM (Project Object Model) for each jar. From this a maven goal could be used to get the source from the correct CVS directly into your own repository. This would, in fact, solve the problem where it should be solved. Unfortunately, I can't find any POMs that seem to have the information needed to actually make this work.
Interestingly enough, www.ibiblio.org/maven/cocoon only has builds for 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 but not 2.1.5 and doesn't have POMs. Anyone know who builds this stuff? As for what is in ibiblio or a Cocoon repository, it only has to contain stuff that is currently supported. If I "formally" built something I will have a copy of the source in the global repository at my site. Ralph Vadim Gritsenko said: > Ralph Goers wrote: > >> What do you mean by maintain? > > > Just compare content of the http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/tomcat/jars/ > with http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/tomcat-4/archive/. Maven has > single 4.0 release, and single 4.1 release even now. What will it have > several years from now? Nothing? > > >> As for who will put the source in, it would be whoever puts the binary >> jar in - they should come in and go out together. > > > So your answer is "nobody" :-) > If somebody steps forward (like you, for example) and creates a > repository of software cocoon release depends on, there is at least some > guarantee that this repository will happen and will be complete. And if > you just sit and wait when source code will be put in by corresponding > team, there is no much chance this will happen at all - simply because > other teams do not have reasons or motivation to do so. > > Vadim
