Hello. I have couple of questions and also I have some answers about artifact * classifiers*.
What do you think about classifiers? Do you think they are important? Do you think they are useful. I think it is great idea but it is not so much supported by plugins. Classifiers are great to build artifact to different environments - as you describe at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-building-for-different-environments.html . Currently it is not possible to install/deploy POM of artifact with classifier. It produces that *transitive dependencies do not work* - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2759. -- *I solved it!* I attached patches to *install* (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MINSTALL-41) and *deploy *(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEPLOY-78) *plugins*. I use myself-patched plugins and it works very well to me. Could you review those patches? There are some methods that should be rather moved to maven core *maven-artifact-manager* classes * DefaultArtifactInstaller* or *DefaultArtifactDeployer*. What do you think about this implementation? Could you apply it in next plugin releases? Classifier users - please vote for mentioned install and deploy issues to be solved soon. Best regards, Libor