>>>>> Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Thanks for your input Steinar.

> But this isn't at all helpful. Because is to vague. In order for us
> (the Maven devs) to fix things we need you (the Maven users) to let us
> know *exactly* what is wrong. Please give us concrete examples, then
> we can fix them.

Two things have locked us to 2.0.4:
 - a bug in maven proper (I think) where maven will ungzip a tar.gz
   or tgz file it downloads, before dropping it in the local maven
   repo, still with the same name, which breaks when an attempt is
   made at using the file
 - our use of <profile> gave maven 2.0.5 a nullpointer exception, and
   still breaks with error messages I don't understand, and haven't
   had time to look closer at, on 2.0.7

The profile problem is the reason I haven't been able to verify that
we have the unpack issue on 2.0.7, which is why I haven't reported it
as a bug.

Trying to find out about the two above have been _major_ time
wasters.  We have spent days trying to track down what has been
happening with the first one, and have spent days trying to understand
<profiles> enought to fix the second one.

So I guess <profiles> should definitely be classified as _hard_.

> Of course this does not really apply when documentation is totally missing.

Well, the plugin that had documentation preceeding the currently
released plugin was maven-dependency-plugin a way back.  I was trying
to use the analysis goal, which the documentation showed but the
plugin didn't have.  And also there were some <exclude*> parameters in
copy-dependencies that were in the online docs, but not in the
released plugin.

This is hopefully outdated information, and has been fixed a long time
back.  However I avoid doing "mvn -U", since I'm still on 2.0.4 (see
above). 


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