Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 1.7
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Component/s: None
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Description
The fix for MPDIST-8 unfortunately has made "site" a prereq for dist:build-bin. OK, the fix does make the behaviour predictable, but I would not say "right". IMHO the full project site docs don't belong in a binary distribution at all. What you need there is exactly what was bundled in RC2: the jar, and the javadoc to use it. The site docs don't belong in the source distribution either, as it is so easy to generate them from the source.
Not to break anything depending on the current behaviour, the site plugin would need a property like maven.dist.bin.includeSite=true/false, the default being true.
My project is for end-user (it's a game desktop app),
the kind of people that will freak out and turn into psychopats if they see complicated things like javadocs
So can you it a variable with 3 types: