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Robert Muir commented on SOLR-3405:
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This is an argument against Maven generally, not exclusively the Solr 
artifacts; I view it as a thinly veiled re-assertion that Lucene/Solr should 
not support Maven at all. Again: -1.
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Its really not that: and though i've asserted this before (especially when 
maven had no tests, but now it does), when
did I do this on the recent thread? I have stated that I think we shouldn't 
release maven if its "different" than our
other packaging because I think that causes it to be more of a mystery. I 
opened this issue to *improve* the situation,
not to have an issue to argue about maven. you can s/maven/rpm/ and i feel the 
same way about all of this: these are
just different packaging formats but I think the underlying products we release 
should be *the same*.

I'm upset about the maven packaging on this issue because in my opinion, it 
packages solr up like an API which is 
different than our binary release: which packages it up to be used as an 
application. Frankly you really can't
do much else with the solr binary packaging except use it as an application: 
those solr-core.jar's etc do you
absolutely no good unless you hunt down all the jars (or yank em out of 
solr.war/WEB_INF, maybe some IDEs do that),
yourself.

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+1, I've looked at doing this in the past but didn't see a quick way to do it.
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I also don't think we should do it for 4.0, its too risky. But we should look 
at it for the future. A few things to think about:

* its annoying when releasing lucene/solr that you cant do it all with one 
command line. So I think we would add a top-level "prepare-release" to 
trunk/build.xml that would simply invoke solr/ prepare-release. And solr's 
prepare-release would depend on lucene's. That would be nice as we have one 
single command for this.
* since solr prepare-release now knows that lucene's is also built, I think it 
would be easier for it to use the jars from the lucene release. easier, not 
easy.

thats just the non-maven parts, the maven stuff is more blurry to me.
                
> maven artifacts should be equivalent to binary packaging
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-3405
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3405
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Build
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>             Fix For: 4.0
>
>
> Lets take the commons-csv scenario: 
> * apache-solr-3.5.0 binary distribution contains no actual commons-csv.jar 
> anywhere,
>   in fact it contains no third party jars (the stuff present in solr/lib) at 
> all.
> * binary distribution contains only the jars necessary for *solrj* and 
> *contrib plugins*, and a solr.war
> I think the maven artifacts should match whats in the binary release (no 
> third party jars 
> inside the .war are "exposed", we just publish the .war itself). This exposes 
> a lot less surface area.

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