Re: [jira] Created: (UIMA-164) Add source build

[Thilo Goetz]

Marshall, how hard is it to obtain and install the DocBook build env? 
We're currently completely free of third-party licenses, and while it 
seems possible to include the DocBook stuff, it'll be some work to get 
everything straightened out.  Is it worth the effort?  We tell people to 
install Maven and a Java SDK as well.  Can't we just put up some 
instructions on how to set up the DocBook build env and remove it from 
svn and our distribution?

--Thilo
Marshall Schor wrote:
Adam Lally wrote:
I added the Maven assembly descriptor for the source distribution.

There is one issue.  I didn't include uima-docbooks, so with the
resulting source distribution you can build the jars/plugins but you
can't build the actual binary distribution (if you run mvn
assembly:assembly you get a file not found error).

Should we include the docbooks sources in the source distribution?

Yes, I think.
Even if we do that, there's still the matter of the 3rd-party JARs
needed to run docbook - I'm not sure if we're allowed to bundle them
in our distribution even if we wanted to.

Don't include the things we're not allowed to redistribute.  Those 
should not even be in SVN, I think.



-Adam