> The issue is that, AFAICT, some dependencies have been patched, so > you cannot simply use Maven dependencies
Hm, perhaps a few. I saw instructions on patching emma; nothing else is leaping out at me. Taking gwt-dev-nodeps further, it looks like most of the deps come from bundling tomcat and htmlunit. Neither of which I use. I think it would be fairly easily, at least from a packaging perspective, to make gwt-dev-nodeps, gwt-tomcat, and gwt-htmlunit jars, none of which have their dependencies in them, but instead pulled in however projects otherwise manage transitive dependencies (poms/what have you). If I got a gwt-dev-nodeps/gwt-tomcat/gwt-htmlunit build working, would anyone be interested in that? - Stephen -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
