How to create a real distribution?

[Jörg Schaible <Jo...@Elsag-Solutions.com>]

Hello,

what is the best way to create and deploy a distribution?

A distribution contains normally the jars, some docs and additional files like configuration, readme or license. The distribution should be provided in configurable formats (tar.gz, zip, installer.exe, but not exclusive) and may have an supplementing source distribution containing sources, build files and again readme and license, etc. 

A deployment shoul be possible into a Maven repository in the folders <groupid>/dist/<artifactid>.<format> and optional in <groupid>/source/<artifactid>.<format> and stuff license and POM into the structure, too. Some groups in the Maven repo at ibiblio have already such elements.

Is Maven urrently lacking all support for this or did I miss something?

Regards,
Jörg


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