On Tuesday 25 August 2009 15:00:33 Xavier Hanin wrote: > 2009/8/24 Nicolas Lalevée <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org> > > > A point raised by a user of Ivy: > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-ivy-user/200908.mbox/%3CA0B0 > >f63671be56498793255905162b5db2e...@dc1.fal.local%3e Which also point to > > these > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-325 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1003 > > > > The problem is about retrieving transitively sources of some artifact on > > the > > maven repo. Today Ivy is generating things like : > > <publications> > > <artifact name="commons-validator" type="jar" ext="jar" > > conf="master"/> <artifact name="commons-validator" type="source" > > ext="jar" > > conf="sources" > > m:classifier="sources"/> > > </publications> > > > > So when resolving the conf "master", we cannot get the sources. IvyDE > > work around this by looking to every declared artifact, but with ant we > > cannot. Shouldn't we better generate: > > <publications> > > <artifact name="commons-validator" type="jar" ext="jar" > > conf="master"/> <artifact name="commons-validator" type="source" > > ext="jar" > > conf="master,sources" m:classifier="sources"/> > > </publications> > > > > Is there any reason not to do so ? > > The problem with that is how people would get only the main jar of their > dependencies? Using an artifact type filter? That doesn't sound good IMO.
I thought types where meant to be used for that kind of use case. > Another suggested solution is to add a sources->sources(*) in the > dependency conf mapping, but I see 2 problems with that: > - it makes the sources conf always transitive > - the fallback of * doesn't really make sense > > So what I find would be better is to define a transitive-sources conf, and > have a conf mapping of transitive-sources->transitive-sources(*), or even > better transitive-sources->transitive-sources(none) if we define 'none' as > a special fallback conf which means no dependency conf if the required one > does not exist. Of course we would need to do that for javadoc too. what about transitive-sources->transitive-sources(sources) ? Nicolas > > WDYT? > > Xavier > > > Nicolas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
