: No, more about how the source release is produced and used. From where : I come the source release is the exact set of bits that the release : manager is using to build any additional release artifacts. So by : definition it can't be a build target among others. Having a build : target produce the source package can easily miss something or
+1 ... I remember suggesting something along these lines for lucene-java a while back: create the source tgz, then unpack it and use it to create the binary tgz. (IIRC, we had a problem once where the one of hte build files was being excluded from the release, so you couldn't build the demo) -Hoss
