I got the assembly stuff working but there are a few issues. 1.) The tarballs include transitive dependencies (like commons-lang). We don't want to ship those with our nightly or official releases
2.) Maven assembly doesn't really allow you to easily create both source and bin tarballs. 3.) Maven assembly is cumbersome. 4.) Bruno has reminded me that the @lastmodified@ issue will not be handled using this process So I propose we consider writing our own maven plugin to build our tarballs. I know very little about maven and even less about writing a plugin (zero) but I'm willing to get up to speed if someone more knowledgeable can help. Is this a crazy idea or something worth doing? Maybe Wendy will be interested in helping since she handles this type of thing for Struts (which will eventually need something like this.) Sean
