Strange, you should file a ticket about this. Please provide a simple project to reproduce the issue.
/Anders (mobile) Den 18 nov 2013 02:38 skrev "James Hutton" <james.a.hut...@gmail.com>: > Yeah, turns out I just needed to release it. For some reason maven wasn't > downloading the build extension at all when it was a snapshot version. > After making a release maven pulled down the artifact correctly without it > being preloaded in my maven install or local repository. > > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Russell Gold <r...@gold-family.us> wrote: > > > Hi James, > > > > There are some things I don’t understand about your scenario. You say you > > “temporarily” have a maven build extension. What does that mean? Are you > > currently using ant? And using ant tasks for maven to build the maven > > portions? Or now using maven and having it call an old build tool? More > > information would help us to help you. > > > > Regards, > > Russ > > > > On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:31 PM, James Hutton <james.a.hut...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have a project where I need to temporarily have a maven build > extension > > > (because we're migrating to maven) and did not know if there is any way > > to > > > get the maven extension artifact to automatically download. I have > seen > > > that if the artifact is in my local repository that it does not need to > > be > > > in my lib/ext folder but if it hasn't already been downloaded maven > > throws > > > an error that it can't find the artifact. Are there any options or > > steps I > > > can document that would prevent me from having to get the artifact > > deployed > > > into all of my maven installations or local repositories? I saw some > > > documentation on the Eclipse Tycho project that they seem to believe it > > > should automatically download, but it did not for me (I think there is > a > > > proxy issue). My extension is still in a snapshot state, could it be > > that > > > if I made a release it would automatically download? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > James > > > > ----------------- > > Author, Getting Started with Apache Maven < > > http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-apache-maven/video> > > > > Come read my webnovel, Take a Lemon <http://www.takealemon.com>, > > and listen to the Misfile radio play < > > http://www.fuzzyfacetheater.com/misfile/>! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >