On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I was wondering why we don`t generate source artefacts for snapshots, just > like we do for final versions? > > While I do agree that final versions are the important ones, it's often very > annoying to have to manually add sources from the filesystem (assuming you > have cloned locally the git repo) for all the maven modules that you want to > see the code or even the javadoc or method parameter names. For final > releases we don`t have that problem because Eclipse and the Maven plugin > (for example) can automatically download the sources in the background > providing an effortless process. However, while working with snapshots, you > are nagged continuously that the sources can not be found automatically and > you experience a bit of unneeded frustration :). Not only that > > Would it be that much of a storage penalty for the extra sources jars to > accompany the snapshot builds?
Sources packages are generally way bigger that jars. See http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/commons/xwiki-commons-component-api/3.2-milestone-2/ for example. But maybe it's not really an issue to have a maven repository way bigger, storage is not that expensive AFAIK. > Would it be that much of a build time penalty for actually generating source > builds for each artefact? It's not minor but I could not tell you the exact cost. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Eduard > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
