> sources that are posted there and tried to build from them ? How is it even > possible - after all (AFAIK) they do not form a valid Maven project ?
>> They should. What's the pount in distributing a source package if you can't build it ? >> Also keep in mind that Apache does *only* distribute source packages, binary packages are proposed for convenience only. Any source pckages should be buildable. Thanks for the clarification - I was not aware of this (one learns something new every day...). I will try and do as you suggested and see for myself if the issue you reported is reproducible. As you yourself indicated it is puzzling since the sources are supposedly a copy of the github ones and as you mentioned, the github repository can be successfully built. As a side-bar, in the era of github does it make sense to mandate publishing the sources ? After all, they are publicly available to whoever wants to clone the repository and build the project. Perhaps Apache should reconsider the policy and allow projects that have a public (!) git hub repository avoid the need to publish the sources.... Lyor G.
