[jira] Created: (MNG-4468) Support lazy loading dependencies

["redstun (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Support lazy loading dependencies
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                 Key: MNG-4468
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4468
             Project: Maven 2
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Dependencies
    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
         Environment: All
            Reporter: redstun


we have an auto-test project powered by maven, that has the ability to install our product on a testing environment and run the auto-test nightly. We have two major scenarios

1. we have the nightly test build server which executes all the auto-test and will activate the relevant profiles so that the product will be deployed as part of the test environment, which has dependency on artifacts of our products.

2. for each team member we can configure the auto-test to run against an external product server, to execute specific tests, instead of letting the auto-test build to deploy it's server every time we need to run a test. And we don't activate the profiles which will deploy our product to run the test.

The problem is for team members is, although they don't need the product artifacts, they don't activate the relevant profiles, but the product artifacts are still being downloaded. 

Probably we should separate the dependencies into 2 categories,
1. the dependencies that need to be downloaded preemptively.
2. the dependencies that can be downloaded lazily, like lazy loading, they are downloaded only when the relevant goals are executed.

Thanks

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