>1. A locked down repo in which only "approved" versions of some deps exist.
>2. An open repo which proxied on to maven central. This is commonly done where the CI system uses only the approved versions and the devs are free to use the proxied one. It simply means that they must be sure that the dependencies are in the approved version before they commit/merge or obviously the CI will fail (as it should) >Note that the process of approving an artifact is not trivial - we need to >vet each dep and each transitive dep of said deps - don't really want to do >all this rigmarole in the case of test-scope and plugin deps. This simply isn't possible at the moment. As you discovered, even the pluginRepository separation isn't working perfectly because it tries to find the plugin's deps in a normal repo. Further, the pluginRepository separation is deprecated in 2.1 because it doesn't really get any benefit and generally makes a mess of things. You have a valid use case here, but it simply hasn't been proposed or coded. This is something that could be done, but more likely in the 2.2 timeframe. >Even if maven somehow communicated the scope of the artifact it is >requesting to the repository I could work around this at the repository >level; i.e., for e.g., the open-proxied repo would reject all requests for >compile/runtime dependencies and only allows requests for test and plugin >dependencies and their transitive dependencies, but maven swallows up this >information before making the call to the repository. >Is sending this information along with the call to the repository difficult? >I have no idea how maven resolves dependencies so have no idea as to how >easy/difficult this is. This would require a new wagon implementation to be tightly tied to a repository manager like Nexus as the current defaults are using regular http gets and convey no information other than the file they want. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]