doc directory and multi-module projects

[Ian Young]

On 30 Jun 2013, at 18:35, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> Maybe the maven plugin that produces the tar ball/zip forms has some
> option for pulling in documentation or "extra" files?

Yes it does, but normally only from within the project containing the specific assembly descriptor.  So if you're in a monolithic project, it's easy to pull in the doc/RELEASE-NOTES.txt and arrange to put it in an output .zip.

Less obvious to see how you'd use that in a multi-module project.  I don't think you'd want to try and collate multiple release notes files from the different modules.  If your multi-module project has just one packaged output then maybe you can put the release notes in the module that creates that.  That feels a bit weird, though: for the MDA, for example, at the moment the only packaged output (packaged other than as individual .jars, I mean) is the CLI module and that doesn't feel like the right place to put release notes to me, particularly if another module might one day package a .war for a web application.

	-- Ian



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