Gradlew build creates 2 files

[American2050]

Not sure if this question goes here or not, well, here is the "problem"

 

Whenever I use the gradlew build on Forge 1.9 it creates 2 files, never happened on 1.7.10 where it always creates only 1.

 

What is the "xxx-sources" used for?

 

I have also see some 1.9 mods that come on a .zip file and ask for installation to drop both files on the Mods folder, isn't that "wrong"?

 

Thanks a lot.

[Choonster]

The sources JAR is exactly what the name suggests: the source code of the mod; though it's actually the reobfuscated source (SRG names) rather than the original deobfuscated source (MCP names).

 

Source JARs are there to allow other projects that depend on yours to see your project's source code in the IDE. ForgeGradle allows you to add

deobfCompile

/

deobfProvided

dependencies (source code or compiled bytecode), these will be deobfuscated on disk from SRG names to the current project's MCP names.

 

Source JARs definitely shouldn't be required outside of the development environment. Any mod that asks you to install a source JAR is doing something wrong.