[MNG-1326] Using CVS/CVN/etc. as source-code repository for Maven + having list of known projects.

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Miks Rozenbergs opened MNG-1326 and commented

INTRODUCTION
This feature is about Maven being able to automatically download source for dependent projects and compile them.
The desired procedure would be to:

1. manually check out the project you wish to build
2. run maven on it
   Maven itself would then:
3. read through dependencies,
4. checkout each of the dependencies from Source Control system
5. for each checked out project, do step [MNG-5445] Fix missing requirement in AbstractStringBasedModelInterpolator #1.

This would for example solve the issue of re-build everything from an arbitrary node on dependency graph e.g. creating a hotfix for some big application.

IMPLEMENTATION
It would require to have a list of all known groupId/artifactId/version with they corresponding location. Maven would know the location of this list (it can be provided in settings.xml) and for each dependency it would check this list to see where to get the it's source.

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Jason van Zyl commented

This is not what Maven was built to do. It can be implemented as a plugin or extension, but won't be supported by default.