As already said in this thread, the only working way to get the sources of the developer builds for excalibur-components (and some others) is to check out the state from exactly the specified date. That's why a jar contains the date in the name.
Now, we discussed this topic, but never agreed to anything :) And I personally don't want to also store hundreds of sources of other projects in the cocoon cvs. Anyway, I asked the Avalon guys to release all relevant projects for us and they are currently in the process of exactly doing that for us - or more precisly Leo Sutic is doing most of the work with some help from others. Thanks Leo! So, I have the hope that starting with 2.1.5 we will stick to a vote we made ages ago "Only use released versions of other projects" :) The current release process at Avalon has one main advantage: making releases of those parts in the future becomes much easier. So, if we need a release, at can simply be done. Carsten