Recently I needed to create zip artifacts for overlays into WAR. Maven doesn't have support for "zip" packaging type projects, but MNG-1683 wants to introduce it.
I am curious why this issue has been ignored. Is it just a lack of time or interest? Or is there a philosophical issue behind? For the latter, I can't see much difference between a zip lifecycle and jar lifecycle except there is no default "compile" binding. Cheers, Paul
