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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2019 09:32:04 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        java@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 237913] devel/apache-ant - upgrade, build from source
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Michael Osipov <michael.osipov@siemens.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Osipov <michael.osipov@siemens.com> ---
Hey there, I'd like to make a few comments (specific and in general):

Being an ASF member and happy FreeBSD user, but not an Ant committer have h=
ave
these cases once in a while. I just can tell how we handle thia at least wi=
th
Maven, but am sure that other projects do similarly:

ASF only releases source code, in some cases like Java, we do provide binary
releases. Both are trustworthly because all of them signed (GPG) when you
download from dist.apache.org. In general we reject custom-built binary
distributions becaue they aren't verified by us and contain sometimes
tremendous modifications, .e.g., Debian and friends are worstcase here, I j=
ust
loath their approach. We refuse to evaluate bugs with those customs distros=
. Of
course, it requires some adaptations for a specific platform, but it has to=
 be
reasonable and generally not break the flow of the application.

As for Javadoc issues: you have have the ports system download mutltiple fi=
les,
so you could download them from Maven Central and add them for the build OR
simply disable the build of Javadoc because I do not see any benefit genera=
ting
it here if you use Ant from command line only. They are needed by people wr=
igin
custom targets/commands for Ant and they will use an IDE where source JARs =
are
pulled from Central too.

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