I have a build that depends on com.odiago.avro:odiago-avro:jar:1.0.5
, which I've been unable to find prebuilt in any repository.
The source is available on github. Is there a maven plugin I can use to get maven to download and build the dependency, or will I need to manually download and install it?
Download Plugin for Maven This is a plugin meant to help maven user to download different files on different protocol in part of maven build. For the first implementation, there will only be a goal that will help downloading a maven artifact from the command line.
The Clean Plugin is used when you want to remove files generated at build-time in a project's directory.
The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location.
What is a Plugin? "Maven" is really just a core framework for a collection of Maven Plugins. In other words, plugins are where much of the real action is performed, plugins are used to: create jar files, create war files, compile code, unit test code, create project documentation, and on and on.
I don't think there is such a plugin, but I'd say that even if there were it'd probably serve you better to download the source (using a stable tag), build it yourself, and install it into your local repository (mvn install). Few reasons:
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