And ... just to put a little more weight for my suggestion, I just found the one jar in maven-central that is least probable to be used by a maven project :-) http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/2.1.3/maven-ant-tasks-2.1.3.jar (It's a lib to make Ant be able to deploy Maven artifacts)
So I think people at Maven are putting things there in order for Ant projects to be able to fetch them from there ... Chris ________________________________________ Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. August 2014 14:51 An: [email protected] Betreff: Using Maven dependencies instead of binary distributions? Hi, I am currently trying to extend some of our build scripts with targets that locally install built libs in a maven repo. Now I have to sort of tell the targets which dependencies are used. I would really like to simply reference libs publically available in Maven-Central but some of the libs we are using are some strange patched versions. Simply referencing jars in maven central would make it a lot easier to download only what we need. I think it would be a lot more stable than depending on the project sites of several projects being online. So instead of downloading a zip or tar.gz from a project site, unpacking that and taking one or two jars from that and copying them to another place, wouldn't it be a lot easier to simply fetch that from maven-central? After all you can download the jars with the same tools you download the binary packages. Chris
