[aether-users] Aether ant tasks status

[Guillaume Polet <guillaume.polet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

We are currently thinking to switch from Maven Ant Tasks (2.1.3) to 
Aether Ant Tasks for artifact resolution in one of our Ant build file. 
Somehow, it seems that m-a-t is unable to resolve properly transitive 
dependencies with version ranges and specifying fixed version in the 
dependency management section did not seem to help either. However, in 
our "traditional" Maven 3 build, we do not face this issues and version 
ranges work as expected (the dependencies I rely on are not under my 
control and I cannot replace these version ranges with fixed version). 
So my expectation is that switching to Aether Ant Task will solve the 
problem (I understood that m-a-t and Aether Ant Tasks do not use the 
same artifact resolution mechanisms and Aether is the one used by 
Maven3, let me know is my assumptions are incorrect).

Anyway, I would have liked to know what is the current status of the 
Aether Ant Tasks since I don't see much activity on the project and I am 
currently unable to find any published version of a binary version of 
those (a jar file). Is this foreseen in the future? Should I still 
consider using Aether Ant Tasks or will the m-a-t eventually switch to 
aether for artifact resolution mechanisms?

If needed, I can fork Aether Ant Task (for the time being) and publish 
it to our own repository (or can I make it to central directly?). I can 
spend a few hours on this but I can't commit to regular work on the project.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Guillaume Polet