no particular difficulty in my opinion: you only have to download the archive from maven.apache.org and, eventually, change your system path to new Maven location. However, as Jason Van Zyl stated in the last JUG meeting here in Rome, Maven is on its way towards 3.0 release and newer Maven versions begin to get some features of the upcoming release (but personally I don't know which ones). Tommaso
2009/9/3 Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> > > > Jörn Kottmann wrote: > > Marshall Schor wrote: > >> Tommaso Teofili wrote: > >> > >>> yes, there are many changes from 2.0.9, you could try with newest > >>> 2.2.1. > >>> I have no problem with both 2.1.0 and 2.2.1 on MacOS X 10.5, but get > >>> the > >>> same error Jorn gets with maven 2.0.9. > >>> Tommaso > >>> > >> Thanks Tommaso, for the investigation ! > >> > >> I'm on 2.2, and saw a bunch of messages that 2.1 is not a good level > >> (unless I'm confusing this with something else) - so I encourage > >> everyone to migrate to 2.2.x. > >> > > Sure I can update to 2.2.x, but I do not appreciate the change because > > OS X 10.5 and Ubuntu 9.10 both are shipped with maven 2.0.9. > > For me that sounds like many users will run into this issue. > > > > What do we get anything that is worth depending on 2.2.x ? > Good question. I think some dependencies have been creeping in... > > Before going down the path of trying to find all of these, how hard is > it to get/use the 2.2.x maven on these systems? > > -Marshall > > > > Jörn > > > > >