[jbosstools-dev] Who uses .target file?

Hi all, This is an important question for us. Nick and I are now convinced that .target files are not the panacea to drive dependency management at build time. It adds a lot of additional steps and it does not work that easily in the Maven way. We are thinking of some alternatives way to provide a "dependency" repository that would contain only the necessary stuff for you to work on your component. Then we'll just manage this repository instead of a .target file, it should make our daily work better and remove lot of complexity. See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10915 and comments starting from here https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11157?focusedCommentId=12676643&... for more details/debate. So we more and more think this .target file is useless, and we'd like to get rid of it (uselessness is bad). But before that, we'd like to know whether some of you do use the generated .target file. If yes, we'll have to think on a better way to make everyone happy. So *if you use .target file, raise your hand*! -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>