Sorry, for the cross-post ...but it seems we need a dialog here somehow. We now have two threads on two different mailing lists/communities that really should talk to each other.
I propose to commit again all JARs into, say, cocoon/trunk/m2repo and then tell Maven at build time to use that directory in the checkout area as first repository server in the search list.
So where is the big difference? For every fresh checkout you download the jars from subversion. Guys I have no solution at hand but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. I would be good to summarize all the pain points and post them over in maven land. The pain being so bad that we are (somehow) considering going back to ant should be alarming enough. Another point seems to be forgotten in this discussion so far - the legal aspects of distributing jars. Does the ASF want to re-distribute 3rd party jars? Plus: based on a chat Sylvain and me had with Cliff during ApacheCon it seems we could have blocks providing bridging code to LGPL ...as long as we do not provide the jar and the block is optional. (Sylvain, did I summarize that correctly?) I agree that the whole maven2 situation is currently far less than just acceptable ...but TBH I am not sure the maven team is (or was?) really aware of all the problems we have. Maybe we can get a statement on the maven self-update and unreliable-messed-up-repository situation. From what it sounds they are working on it. So let's not work this out in our little cocoon corner but let's hear what they have to say. cheers -- Torsten
