Hello Matt, Matt Benson wrote: > FWIW, however, I have found Brian Fox to be quite knowledgeable on > Maven matters (not unexpectedly). If he says it works, it probably > does. I am a bit paranoid, I just checked that it really works, and yes, I can add a dependency to org.apache.ant, ant, 1.8.0 in a pom.xml and download the dependencies. I just read about what the missing versions in maven-metadata.xml can break here [1]. Looks like missing versions in maven-metadata.xml break using dependencies to ranges of versions.
[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-443 > I am pretty sure that in Ivy's case if the metadata were not > found it would fall back to simply mining the expected locations for > the artifacts based on the known m2 layout; perhaps Maven does > something similar... > > -Matt > > Regards, Antoine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
