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Michael Osipov commented on MNG-6448:
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You are likely confusing m2eclipse with Maven. Maven never downloads source
JARs. Can you clarify with an example?
> Need to be able to tell Maven to not bother trying to download particular
> sources jars
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> Key: MNG-6448
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6448
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Dependencies
> Reporter: Jim Showalter
> Priority: Major
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> Sources jars are optional, so Maven has no way of knowing if a project
> decided to publish a sources jar. Even if the code and released jar hasn't
> changed since 1998, somebody might edit the build pom to generate a sources
> jar.
> This causes Maven to attempt to fetch non-existent sources jars in perpetuity.
> Maven waits several seconds when attempting to fetch a sources jar before
> giving up.
> We have 142 sourceless jars on our build path.
> The wait time multiplied by 142 winds up adding 11 minutes to our builds.
> We don't want to shut off sources jars, because, when they exist, developers
> use them to step through code. But we don't want Maven to keep trying to
> download sources jars we know don't exist and are pretty sure will never
> exist.
> Something like a section in settings.xml for ignoreSourcesJars that allowed
> us to list the ones to ignore would be great.
> I'm happy to help with this if someone can point me to where in the code a
> change like this needs to be made.
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