This might have been unintentional. In the past, we've always made a point of NOT putting -src and -bin zips/tars in Maven Central.
Has this policy changed with the new svnpubsub? Gary On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that for the recent releases the source and binary > packages have been published in the Maven repository. I saw that with > fileupload 1.3 and daemon >= 1.0.11. > > Is this a "standard" practice? > > I find this very interesting because the sources.jar usually shipped is > great for browsing the code in our IDEs, but it can't really be used to > recompile the project (it doesn't provide the source of the generated > code for example). This is critical for downstream packagers like Debian > that insists in building everything from the source. The buildable > source distribution in Maven is likely to help them greatly. > > I would just note that we publish a src.zip and src.tar.gz artifact in > the Maven repository. We should probably publish only one to avoid > overloading the repository. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
