Can you give provide a library which you are trying to pull and you don't get sources? Also your ivyconf/ivy.xml will be nice.
Daniel On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ben Piper<b...@fal.co.nz> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using these Eclipse plug-in versions: > > Apache Ivy 2.1.0.cr2_20090704004254 > Apache IvyDE 2.0.0.final-200907011148-RELEASE > > and I'm wondering if it's possible to get sources for transitive > dependencies without having to declare them explicitly. It seems that > because ivy.xml files generated from Maven 2 pom.xml's don't include > sources in the list of confs for transitive dependencies, there's no way > I can indirectly ask for them. Or is there some specific way of > specifying the conf attribute (or some other attribute) for a parent > dependency so that it will force the sources conf on those transitive > dependencies? > > Obviously if I sneakily add a sources->sources(*) entry for a given > transitive dependency to the parent dependency's ivy.xml file in my > local cache, IvyDE will end up retrieving the sources JAR for that > transitive dependency (assume it exists in this case), but that's not a > solution, and I wonder if Ivy shouldn't be doing that (and adding one > for javadoc) by default? Although I suppose it can't guarantee that > source and javadoc artifacts actually exist, which I assume would cause > a resolve error (even though the parent artifact may have a > source/javadoc artifact). Perhaps I've answered my own question. > > It's not a major issue for me, but I'd like to avoid explicitly > declaring transitive dependencies just to get their source artifacts if > at all possible. > > Thanks, > > Ben > > >
