Dear list, I have read https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5567 but did not manage to understand whether the issue has supposedly been solved or even whether it is consensual that it should be solved. One person (who seems to be, or was at the time, a Maven developer?) seems to argue that it should, but other voices seem to be opposed to it.
I just lost hours trying to understand why my (zip) dependency was not reachable from my code, then thought that my IDE was at fault, and finally realized that Maven itself does not seem to include zip types in the classpath. I want to raise my support for fixing this: there is clearly a natural expectation for this to work, considering that java accepts zip files as dependencies.
