IMO the source zip should include the tests. If I build from first principles (and maybe patch on top of that), how do I know if I've built something valid? Or introduced one small bug?
I have to apologize for not having kept up on the Maven build. This is something you get for "free" when your project is organized in the standard Maven folder layout and you use the Maven Assembly plugin. I'll have to take some time this weekend and look... ;-) Gary On Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 5:38 PM Joseph Kessselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In the past, the src tarball/zipfile has included an embedded copy of > xalan-test, for the convenience of anyone downloading source who wanted > to confirm that their build had succeeded. > > Should the maven src distro do the same, despite xalan-test being ... > oddly ... integrated and still building with ant? > > Or should xalan-test have its own distros? > > Or something else? > > (I'd rather not recreate the embedding of xalan-test's source, but it > wouldn't be impossible, just ugly.) > > -- > ` /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) > -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: > / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ > Caveat: Opinionated old geezer with overcompensated writer's block. May > be redundant, verbose, prolix, sesquipedalian, didactic, officious, or > redundant. Feel free to call him on it. >