While there was a lot of talk about disliking externals, here is the only thing I found that gave any reasons:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 1, 2006 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Maven Build (Ongoing Work Thread) To: MyFaces Development <dev@myfaces.apache.org> [...] I wonder if there is an easy way to share website resources in maven? I don't think we should have 10 copies of the stylesheets, etc. per project. We can use externals but I hesitate to do that b/c they are a PITA when you are branching and tagging (the externals don't change automatically - you have to change them all manually.) Sean
