First let me say ivy is great project, it has been a pleasure to work with. We are currently using ivy 2.0 alpha 2.
We recently hit an issue with resolving some POMs with the ibiblio resolver and usepoms=true. The problem is that the version for a dependency can be stored in the dependency management section of a parent POM. The apache directory server is an example. http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/directory/server/apacheds-server-main/1.5.0/apacheds-server-main-1.5.0.pom Note that the POM for the parent build artifact has the version information for the last 5 dependencies. The PomModuleDescriptorParser currently only builds a dependency descriptor if the groupId, artifactId and version are all set. So for the case of apache directory server, many of the transitive dependencies are ignored. I have been working on an extension to the PomModuleDescriptorParser that build the dependency management information at the end of the project/parent element by parsing the parent chain. Then if a dependency is found without a version, then the dependency management information is used. Is this something that others may be interested in? If so I can open an issue and supply a patch.
