Hi, a few days ago I have posted a request on the Maven user list for some way to create a source bundle for an artifact which not only includes the artifact's source (as produced by source:jar) but also the sources of its transitive dependencies. I was told that the closest approach to this is using the maven-dependency-plugin by specifying the dependency sources to include. However, in general, this results in duplicated dependency declarations in the POM file and, furthermore, the transitive dependency sources are not automatically included.
Therefore, I was thinking of having some kind of source:jar-with-dependencies mojo which grabs all available sources of the transitive dependencies and produces a JAR source bundle out of them. A concrete example where having such a source bundle would be handy is the Maven embedder assembly which is used in the "Maven2 Plugin for Eclipse" project: For that project, the source bundle could then be attached to the embedder assembly, thereby facilitating the development/debugging. So, the reason for this post is to maybe get some feedback about whether such a mojo would be interesting to have or whether there would be some other, better way to go about this. I would then eventually open a JIRA issue on the subject depending on the feedback. So, any ideas/feedback are welcome! Thanks in advance! Best regards, Ovidio --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
