>From time to time, there is an impedance mismatch between the desires of an open source development community and the nature of Maven as a *binary* dependency management system. While I wouldn't, for a moment, suggest tampering with the existing binary system, I was wondering how hard it would be to build a plugin, perhaps inspired by the scm plugin, that could download and build source.
One hopes to discover that the -sources artifact for a gav is, in fact, comprehensive and buildable. Could the results of such a build enter the reactor without core changes, or would there need to be a two-phase approach? This, of course, assumes that the sources are (a) buildable and (b) buildable with maven. (Give or take antrun or other scripting.) A further interesting wrinkle would be to add patch application to the mix -- possibly a problem bounded by the need for a Java implementation of 'patch'. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
