[ImageJ-devel] Eclipse / Maven: Download Sources

[Tobias Pietzsch]

Hi Curtis,

It works now! Thanks a lot for investigating and the detailed
explanation.

bets regards,
Tobias


On 11/16/2012 06:25 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
>  > I just tried to download the sources for the scifio-4.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
> *snip*
>> 1.) Is this supposed to work or can I stop looking?
>> 2.) What could I be doing wrong...
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue!
>
> What you did is correct, and is supposed to work, as long as a
> "-sources" JAR was deployed to the Maven repository. Unfortunately, the
> Bio-Formats Maven build was not building or deploying those.
>
> I have now fixed that for the 4.5-SNAPSHOT version of Bio-Formats, and
> deployed the sources to the Maven repository. I also changed ImgLib
> master to depend on 4.5-SNAPSHOT instead of 4.4-SNAPSHOT. Lastly, I
> filed a PR [1] so that the deployed sources will continue to be
> available for the latest development.
>
> So to get the sources in your Eclipse, perform the following steps:
>
> 1) Pull the latest from imglib.git.
>
> 2) Refresh your Eclipse if necessary (select projects, right-click,
> Maven > Update Project...; but newer versions of Eclipse generally do
> this automatically).
>
> 3) Verify that under the project's Maven dependencies, the JAR has
> changed to scifio-4.5-SNAPSHOT.jar (instead of the old 4.4-SNAPSHOT
> version).
>
> 4) Try again to right-click it, Maven > Download Sources. It should work
> this time.
>
> In the future, if you have this problem again, you can check yourself
> whether the sources are available by inspecting the Maven repository
> directly. For example, I took a look at:
>
> http://maven.imagej.net/content/repositories/snapshots/loci/scifio/4.4-SNAPSHOT/
>
> And saw that there were no "scifio-4.4-XYZ-sources.jar" files, which
> told me that the sources were not getting deployed.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> [1] https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/pull/225
>
> P.S. Alternately, you can of course clone the bioformats.git repository
> and "Import > Existing Maven Projects" into Eclipse to create a project
> dependency linkage instead of a JAR linkage. Then none of this "Downlaod
> Sources" stuff is necessary, and you can even hack on the Bio-Formats
> code if you want to test changes, etc.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Tobias Pietzsch <pietzsch at mpi-cbg.de
> <mailto:pietzsch at mpi-cbg.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello maven gurus,
>
>     In Eclipse, I just tried to download the sources for the
>     scifio-4.4-SNAPSHOT.jar which is referenced in the imglib2-io project
>     (by right-clicking on the scifio jar in "Maven Dependencies" and
>     selecting Maven > Download Sources)
>
>     Didn't work.
>
>     Does anyone know
>     1.) Is this supposed to work or can I stop looking?
>     2.) What could I be doing wrong...
>
>     Thanks for any advice...
>
>     best regards,
>     Tobias
>
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