> > However I see a major disadvantage over dependencies in a VCS repository: If > > a project is dormant for a longer period of time an artifact (i.e. a > > library) may longer be available (in a certain, required version or the > > repository may not exist anymore).
> If you download all your dependencies from a Maven repository (check > the ivyroundup project on googlecode) you are immune to that problem > (as long as the library is available on that repo; but it's Maven's > point). For me, that's true. But if anyone else (who hasn't done this) wants to compile the project he/she can't do this if the dependency has gone.
