If you are interested, I could add the Ivy build system into tools/build...As it's still experimental IIUC, I'd prefer to have it somewhere under http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/whiteboard/
So much I dislike Maven, shouldn't we be honest and say there is no real chance of switching back to an Ant-based build system? Jean-Baptiste can probably live luckily without it and does not need to put more effort in it. And it will avoid some frustrations at the end.
Just my 2c. Jörg
