Yes, I agree, it's about build time. Nevertheless, even for build time fewer deps is better, especially if it can be done. There is no need to include this step in every build, a separate goal might work just fine, or a check based on presence of files before test execution.
On 30 April 2015 at 19:36, Richard Eckart de Castilho < richard.eck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30.04.2015, at 16:51, Aliaksandr Autayeu <aliaksa...@autayeu.com> > wrote: > > > Well, ant is still an extra dependency, though better than wget. > Something > > like Wagon in Maven? > > I guess we are talking about build-time here - so it wouldn't be a test or > runtime dependency and not even be referred to in actual code. > > -- Richard >