Hi, when we move to the consumer pom we can leverage the disk layout of projects inside the same repository while looking for the parent pom.
Currently you can use the <relativePath/> element to refer to the location of a parent pom, AFAIK this is only an hint for Maven and for tools: you must always copy all of the coordinates of the parent module because when you publish your pom the consumer must be able to find such parent module from remote repositories, without having the physical layout of the source code. With the consumer pom with can let the build pom have only the relativePath element and then we will fill the consumer (deployed) pom with the effective parent coordinates. This will simply a lot this part of Maven that is quite annoying for users Thoughts? Enrico
