Patrick Mueller wrote on Friday, February 20, 2004 5:24 PM: > I'm new to maven, so be gentle ... > > I love the dependency mechanism, with the repos (remote and local > shadow). But one of the ways I like to work is to pull in > the source of > a dependency, not just the binaries. Mainly from an IDE usability > point of view, so that I can get nice method completion with > javadoc comment > hovers, etc. But I also often want to look at the source to figure > out what the (*)[EMAIL PROTECTED] the library is doing in the first place. > > What do folks think about adding a new element or elements to > <dependency> to allow the source to be retrieved as well or instead of > the binary? Obviously, folks would have to make their source > available to make this useful, I'm not thinking this will be all that > useful from the get-go.
Well, at least in the repo some packages have aside the jars directory also a distribution and/or a source directory. But I do not know, how they are referenced from Maven, too. Regards, J�rg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
