On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I guess [1] could give you some help. You would then do this in the
> aggregator project.
>

Right, which is what I think you were saying was to be discouraged.  But
that page says that it is common practice.  From the cited link:

It is common practice to create an assembly using the parent POM of a
> multimodule build. At times, you may want to ensure that this assembly also
> includes the source code from one or more of the modules in this build.
>

Which is it?  :-)


> If you want it as part of the build you need to bind the plugin goal to the
> Maven lifecycle. Basic Maven stuff, Google or a Maven book is your friend.
>

Sure; I understand this part.


> Then just execute "mvn deploy" and the source archive will be deployed if
> you configure the assembly plugin correctly.
>

Oh, so the assembly plugin will take care of marking the artifacts it
produces in some magic way so that deploy will know about them?  That would
be handy indeed.

Thanks,
Laird

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