> > > > Sorry, but it seems to me that it was simply a wrong approach to define own > scopes. You run Maven in an undefined state and moan about it's undefined > behavior. > > And the author of the flex plugin has tried, from observation, several times, to get an answer from the maven-dev community about how these things are supposed to be done if not with custom scopes, and every time seemingly come up short.
Believing that the set of scopes that are adequate for describing Java Jar dependencies are sufficient for languages other than Java seems quite parochial behaviour.
