2010/11/17 Marshall Schor <[email protected]> > I spent some time on the phone with a user wanting to build from source. > What > they proposed as a use case was: > > 1) user finds a bug or needs a feature > 2) user checks out source (trunk), makes changes > 3) user now wants to type some simple command and have the set of jars > built. > 4) user *does not* want the complete uimaj-distr build which includes the > source > - they already have that - but does want the binary build, perhaps without > the > javadocs (which are slow to build). > > If that's the use case, perhaps we should make the uimaj / uima-as mvn > install > projects look like the -distr project, but without the source build? > > Or, we could add a parameter -PnoSource (or something like that) to the mvn > command for the -distr projects? >
I think that adding a separate profile like -PnoSource would be a nice option, Tommaso
