kriegaex opened a new pull request, #138: URL: https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/pull/138
@jkesselm, this PR adds javadoc JAR generation to modules `xalan`, `serializer`, `samples`. These modules are candidates for publication on Maven Central (MC) and therefore need javadoc and source (J&S) JARs by default when deploying from Maven. The fact that previous releases did not include J&S on MC, because probably they were deployed manually, does not mean that we should keep it this way and point to the distro archives for J&S. Users should be able to fetch them directly from MC and use them in their IDEs seamlessly. J&S generation steps are wrapped in profiles `create-javadocs` and `create-sources`. It can be skipped easily by deactivating those profiles for quicker development builds. This brings us one step closer to using a canonical release process for the three main artifacts. If we also find a place to publish the Maven site, probably to https://xalan.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html, and make the site contain all relevant information to replace the current website structure for Xalan-J (rest of Xalan is out of scope), the need for separate source and binary distros goes away completely. Nobody downloads a website dump manually anymore, people view it online. Nobody downloads J&S manually anymore either, because all IDEs can do that automatically or on demand per mouse click, improving developer experience by showing J&S inline while using the corresponding library. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
