[technomancy]

> You have the source, but the Maven model used by the whole Java ecosystem for distribution/management of packages doesn't work like that.

Oh, I don't know about that. Clojure does this; shipping source is default, and shipping bytecode is only done in cases of certain Java interop forms.

But Maven has a notion of "classifiers" that seem to be a good fit for this. I've seen them used to specify things like "this is the JDK 1.4-compatible version", so I wonder why Scala library authors haven't used them to publish the same artifact compiled against multiple versions of Scala.

[dantheman]

Does clojure use maven for shipping source around?

[technomancy]

Yes, the source is just stored in jar files, which can contain any kind of files.

[Luyt]

'Jar' files are actually zip files with a '.jar' extension. On my Windows machine I have .jar associated with a zip application, very handy to quickly inspect its contents.