On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > By looking only at the sources jars (ignoring javadoc, since we don`t really need it once we have the sources) it would look as though sources jars are roughly the same size as classes jars. Here's another example for larger jars: http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/org/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-oldcore/3.2-milestone-2/ So... storage-wise, I`d say that source jars would double storage requirements for snapshot builds. Thanks, Eduard > > 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
