Maven dependency resolution (was: Re: svn commit: r517439 - /cocoon/trunk/core/cocoon-servlet-service/cocoon-servlet-service-impl/pom.xml)

[Reinhard Poetz <re...@apache.org>]

Ralph Goers wrote:
> We should consider leveraging the new feature that I finally got 
> committed into Maven - real dependency management.  With the change any 
> version you specify in a dependencyManagement section will override 
> versions specified in transitive dependencies as well as being the 
> version used when no version is specified in a pom.  What I would 
> suggest trying is having a "master" pom that everything extends. The 
> master should specify all the versions to be used across all the blocks, 
> unless a block has a real need to use a different version.  This will be 
> available in 2.0.6.

Good to hear. IIUC from a recent thread on dev@maven, 2.0.6 will be out soon. 
Then we should define 2.0.6 being a prerequisite for building trunk.

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