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

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