Hi Maarten, Tamás, and Gary, Thanks for the toolbox references—I hadn't seen those before. and they're incredibly helpful. I can see that toolbox:tree-find already solves the core problem I identified.
A few thoughts: 1. **Maven 4 vs Maven 3 gap**: Toolbox appears to be Maven 4 focused. My proposal could target Maven 3.x users who don't have access to these tools yet. The maven-dependency-plugin works across both major versions. 2. **Integration vs. standalone**: Rather than a separate toolbox plugin, embedding this functionality directly into maven-dependency-plugin (as dependency:insight) would make it more discoverable for users running `mvn dependency:<tab>`. 3. **Learn from toolbox's approach**: I'd be interested in how toolbox implements tree-find (the artifact matching DSL, performance on large graphs) and adapt those lessons for the dependency plugin. Given what you've shown me, I'm now wondering if this should be positioned as: - A backport of toolbox's tree-find to Maven 3.x via the dependency plugin, OR - A focus on integration with MPH-183 (help-plugin) as Maarten suggested, to complement help:effective-pom I'm flexible on direction. What would be most valuable for the community? Thanks, Hitesh
