source for dependencies

[Patrick Mueller <pm...@yahoo.com>]

I'm new to maven, so be gentle ...

I love the dependency mechanism, with the repos (remote and local 
shadow).  But one of the ways I like to work is to pull in the source of 
a dependency, not just the binaries.  Mainly from an IDE usability point 
of view, so that I can get nice method completion with javadoc comment 
hovers, etc.  But I also often want to look at the source to figure out 
what the (*)*@# the library is doing in the first place.

What do folks think about adding a new element or elements to 
<dependency> to allow the source to be retrieved as well or instead of 
the binary?  Obviously, folks would have to make their source available 
to make this useful, I'm not thinking this will be all that useful from 
the get-go.


-- 
Patrick Mueller
pmuellr@yahoo.com


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