not all projects are released through maven. some are just uploaded to repo. is there a policy to include the javadoc and sources with these as well?
Milos On 11/6/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is possible with Maven 2.x (the Maven libraries certainly do it > already) - what will be important is ensuring that projects themselves > utilise this functionality. > > - Brett > > On 11/7/05, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > recently I came into a situation where I suspected a bug in > > servlet-api-2.4.jar. No problem, it seems: This is open source software, > > get the sources, add them to you Eclipse project and start debugging. > > > > It turned out not so easy: For starters, what are the exact sources of > > servlet-api-2.4.jar? Do I need to get a particular version of Tomcat? Do > > I need to checkout a certain svn or cvs tag? I've been losing about 3 > > hours to get the debugger up and running. (Of course, it turned out, > > that the bug was on my side, having read the specification wrong.) > > > > My personal conclusion is this: It is a bad thing, that we do not > > distribute the sources together with the jar files. Of course, there are > > cases where the license forbids. But at least for ASL licensed jar > > files, it ought to be absolutely no problem to add the sources to > ibiblio. > > > > Additionally, one might request downloads for the source files in order > > to make eclipse:eclipse mount them automatically. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > Jochen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
