Gary Gregory wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net>
[snip] >> Can you name a component where this is true? Afaik all Commons >> components have a full featured source archive which is buildable and a >> limited source attachment for maven. >> > > That true, the whole point of the *-src.zip and *-src.tar.gz files is to > be able to build from scratch. > > The -sources jar in Maven Central are for IDEs, not for builds. These two > kinds of files are somewhat redundant. They are a defacto standard in the Maven repository, because of the standard release profile of Maven. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
