Hi, I would be surprised if it wouldn't be accepted as a .jar is a .zip, is it an immutable legal thing ?
Frédéric THOMAS > From: aha...@adobe.com > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Flex SDK implementing flex-tool-api > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:08:18 +0000 > > > > On 11/10/14, 4:01 PM, "Justin Mclean" <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote: > > >HI, > > > >>> I don’t think we can vote on sources in jars, or do you know for a > >>>fact that other Maven releases do this? > > > >Yes they do see [1]. For recent examples on the incubator take a look at > >Apache Parquet or Calcite (last few days) or the Mavin project itself. > >[2][3][4] > > I read through these links. I don’t think they answered the question as > to whether any projects release one and only one source package that is a > -sources.jar. > > For example, I noticed that [3] also has a zip with a -release suffix with > additional content. In [5], Ctakes has a tar.gz source package. In [6] > Gora has a separate link to release artifacts. We can’t see what they put > on dist/dev, but on dist/release there are zips and tar.gz files but no > jars. The -source.jar appears to be almost like an expected part of a > Maven release/distribution, but at least these two projects seem to also > create zips and tar.gz files as official artifacts. Even Maven [7] has > zips and tar.gz files. > > -Alex > > > > >Justin > > > >1. > >http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#stage-release-vo > >te > >2. http://maven-dev.markmail.org/thread/plib4sayknxktimw (there are many > >other examples seems they have a lot of sub projects and VOTEs) > >3. > >https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1095/org/apache/m > >aven/shared/maven-repository-builder/1.0/ (jars + zips votes on for above) > >4. http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html > > [5] http://s.apache.org/Laf > [6] https://www.mail-archive.com/user@gora.apache.org/msg00299.html > [7] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/maven/maven-3/3.2.3/source/ >
