1These folders host the maven metadata which are used to
2build release binaries for hosting in the central maven
3repositories.  These are not considered the "canonical"
4build, but are maintained seperately by (a) volunteer(s)
5with an interest in easy use of Guava by the Maven build
6system.
7
8As a convenience, these folders have been set up to
9provide alternate packaging of the sub-pmodules, which
10correspond to their respective java packages, with
11sources symbolically linked back to the main project.
12This will work to allow command-line builds on MacOS X
13or other Unix platforms which support symbolic linking,
14but is not known to work on Windows platforms.
15(Obviously the deployed binaries in maven repostories
16will work fine on any compliant JVM).
17
18The maintainers of these metadata have used M2Eclipse
19to import these projects directly into Eclipse.  Please
20remember that this codebase uses @Override annotations
21on methods which implement an interface method, and
22therefore require a JDK 1.6 (or newer 1.5 with the
23appropriate fix) to support this behaviour.  Executing
24Maven with an appropriate JAVA_HOME env is sufficient,
25and these metadata do not have toolchain restrictions
26currently set up.
27
28Christian
29cgruber@google.com
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