On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1356 wants to have source > with jars used in the Eclipse plugins. After fiddling with doing that, > I got things working up to adding to the "runtime" jars. Then I > realized, that these jars have other jars inside them... and things were > already pretty complex. > > An alternative would be to have just one jar with all the sources in it, > and we would get rid of add-sources-to-jar things. Users wanting to have > Eclipse (and maybe other IDEs?) locate the source would be pointed to > this jar. Eclipse supports this, AFAIK. > > The add-sources-to-jar would be replaced with a script to build all the > sources into one jar. > > Opinions? > > -Marshall > > Just for info, starting from Eclipse 3.5, the preferred approach is to create a "source" plugin that will behave and be installed as ordinary plugin. But, since we are using maven, we may have some difficulty to build those "source plugins". (BTW, I never try to create the "source" plugin). -- Tong
