Hey Keith!
Regarding instaling plugins from Maven - we'd definitely like to support
this. Perhaps we could take what you've done and standardize it as a
supported plugin installation mechanism?
Regarding testing the plugins in a forge release distribution. As of Forge
1.0.3.Final, you can invoke Forge from the command line using:
forge -e "command or script to run"
So hopefully that will be of use :) You can install plugins using this
feature as well, so with the combination of the two, we should have some
good testing options!
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Lincoln Baxter, III
http://ocpsoft.org
"Simpler is better."