I doubt this is possible. We used to support building Maven core with Ant, but IIRC a fairly recent discussion resulted in a decision to stop supporting that. So you need Maven installed to build Maven core. More info here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-building-maven.html
/Anders On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Björn Höfling < bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote: > I want to build maven without haven _ANY_ maven/plugin binary. How can > I do that? > > I found out that there is a build.xml and it start building a first > version of Maven. But then it needs plugins to go further. > > I found the plugins source here: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/ > But these have only pom.xml, there is no Ant build script. > > Is there any documentation on this. Searching for "Ant Maven" just > leads you to the ant-maven-plugin... > > Thank you, > > Björn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >