Switching Mahout Version Project is Built On?

[Eli Finkelshteyn]

Hi Folks,
This might be more of a Java/Maven question than a Mahout question, and 
if it is I apologize as I'm a bit new to those as well as Mahout. I'm 
currently working with a project that's built on top of Mahout 0.6, and 
I'm hoping to see if it will still run on the Cloudera supported 
0.5-cdh3u2. This in turn led me to the broader question: what's the 
easiest way to switch in a new version of Mahout to a project built on 
top of it, or what's the best way to build a project that implements 
Mahout classes so that I can easily try it on top of a different version 
of Mahout?

Cheers,
Eli