[MDEP-904] Drop go-offline goal

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: go-offline
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tamas Cservenak
• Created: 18/Jan/24 17:04
• Updated: 23/Jan/24 10:21

Description

The simplest and trivial way to "go offline" is to quick build (using -Dtest=void and NOT -DskipTests!) the project with empty local repository and use that.

There are two "go offline" mojos out there (ours and an independent one) and both suffer from issues like "annotation processor is not downloaded", etc. This will just become worse. But not only this: by NOT building but by artificially collecting artifacts needed for build and resolving them (not doable correctly, only "almost correctly") messes up the recorded contexts in the reverse dependency tree in local repository as well.

Remember, Maven2 times are past, Maven3+ local repository is much much more than Maven2 local repository was, just a bunch a files...

Related issues:

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-262
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7619