Yeah, turns out I just needed to release it. For some reason maven wasn't downloading the build extension at all when it was a snapshot version. After making a release maven pulled down the artifact correctly without it being preloaded in my maven install or local repository.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Russell Gold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > There are some things I don’t understand about your scenario. You say you > “temporarily” have a maven build extension. What does that mean? Are you > currently using ant? And using ant tasks for maven to build the maven > portions? Or now using maven and having it call an old build tool? More > information would help us to help you. > > Regards, > Russ > > On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:31 PM, James Hutton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a project where I need to temporarily have a maven build extension > > (because we're migrating to maven) and did not know if there is any way > to > > get the maven extension artifact to automatically download. I have seen > > that if the artifact is in my local repository that it does not need to > be > > in my lib/ext folder but if it hasn't already been downloaded maven > throws > > an error that it can't find the artifact. Are there any options or > steps I > > can document that would prevent me from having to get the artifact > deployed > > into all of my maven installations or local repositories? I saw some > > documentation on the Eclipse Tycho project that they seem to believe it > > should automatically download, but it did not for me (I think there is a > > proxy issue). My extension is still in a snapshot state, could it be > that > > if I made a release it would automatically download? > > > > Thanks, > > James > > ----------------- > Author, Getting Started with Apache Maven < > http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-apache-maven/video> > > Come read my webnovel, Take a Lemon <http://www.takealemon.com>, > and listen to the Misfile radio play < > http://www.fuzzyfacetheater.com/misfile/>! > > > > > > > >
