I think those bugs may be due to the plugin using the runtime scope
not the runtime classpath? The runtime classpath should include the
compile scope artifacts.

2009/7/31 Benjamin Bentmann <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose an extension of the mojo annotation
>
> �...@requiresdependencyresolution <requiredScope>
>
> This currently allows to resolve only a single scope from the set "compile", 
> "runtime" and "test". A problem I have seen in some plugins is about using 
> "runtime" scope. This scope is not a superset of "compile" as it excludes 
> "system" and "provided" scoped dependendies. However, sometimes plugins 
> really want the aggregation of "compile" and "runtime", see [0], [1] and [2] 
> for some use cases that I could quickly recover.
>
> Hence I suggest we extend the mojo annotation to support the specification of 
> multiple scopes, e.g.
>
> �...@requiresdependencyresolution compile,runtime
>
> or deprecate the existing anno and create a new annotation like
>
> �...@resolvedependencies compile,runtime
>
> The first approach would not require an udpate of the plugin tools but lacks 
> any migration path for plugins to run with old and new Maven versions. Once 
> the multiple scopes are listed in the anno, the plugin's prerequisite would 
> need to be bumped to the newer Maven version.
>
> The second approach would need a few updates to the plugin tools like 
> extracting the new anno and writing it into the plugin descriptor, e.g. as a 
> new field
>
> <dependencyResolutionScopes>compile,runtime</dependencyResolutionScopes>
>
> This way would allow plugins to specify both @requiresDependencyResolution 
> and the new annotation. New Maven versions would give the new annotation 
> precedence. The plugin could check the Maven version and see whether it can 
> trust the dependency sets in the MavenProject or whether it needs its 2.0.x 
> workaround code.
>
> WDYT?
>
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> [0] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEXEC-51
> [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MGWT-77
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/gwt-maven/issues/detail?id=161
>
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