Benson Margulies wrote: >> (Still haven't completely grokked why SNAPSHOT versions can't pull down >> SNAPSHOT parent POMs but life is too short.) > > Whoops, missed this question. Have you run 'mvn deploy' to push the > snapshot? Even if you have, the snapshot repo isn't in anyone's repo > list by default. They would have to add it to their settings.xml.
Does adding a <repositories> section in each of the modules help? Maven cannot retrieve the parent pom.xml file from Maven Central (which is the only repository available before retrieving the parent pom itself). It's not ideal because of the repetition, but if it works would be not that bad (Apache Maven repositories are not going to change). My 2 cents, Paolo