Maven adds '-windows' to the artifact name when downloading a snapshot artifact

Question

I have added a bunch of artifacts to my local Nexus Maven repository.
When I build my project I get the following error:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building pronto-web Java EE 6 Webapp
[INFO] task-segment: [verify]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 4 resources
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding Cp1252, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to C:\Source\Pronto\pronto\pronto-web\target\classes
[INFO] [antrun:run {execution: remove-javax}]
[INFO] Executing tasks
[INFO] Executed tasks
[INFO] [gwt:compile {execution: default}]
[INFO] using GWT jars from project dependencies : 20100714-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] You should not declare gwt-dev as a project dependency. This may introduce complex dependency conflicts
Downloading: http ://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/public-snapshots/com/google/gwt/gwt-dev/20100714-SNAPSHOT/gwt-dev-20100714-20100715.053026-1-windows.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] artifact not found - Unable to locate resource in repository

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.google.gwt -DartifactId=gwt-dev -Dversion=20100714-20100715.053026-1 -Dclassifier=windows -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:
mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.google.gwt -DartifactId=gwt-dev >-Dversion=20100714-20100715.053026-1 -Dclassifier=windows -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]

com.google.gwt:gwt-dev:jar:20100714-20100715.053026-1

from the specified remote repositories:
releases (http://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/public),
all (http://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/all),
snapshots (http://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/public-snapshots)

http ://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/public-snapshots/com/google/gwt/gwt-dev/20100714-SNAPSHOT/gwt-dev-20100714-20100715.053026-1-windows.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 15 08:57:29 CEST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 50M/614M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Has anyone an idea why maven thinks there should be '-windows' added to the artifact name? (Downloading: http ://mercury:8980/nexus/content/groups/public-snapshots/com/google/gwt/gwt-dev/20100714-SNAPSHOT/gwt-dev-20100714-20100715.053026-1-windows.jar)

If I browse the repository it contains the artifact but without the '-windows' suffix.

Older versions of this artifact were platform dependent and had 'windows' or 'linux' or 'mac' as classifier but recent versions are platform independent and I don't have any such classifier in my poms.

PS: I added a space in each URL between the protocol and the colon because I didn't yet receive enough reputation to post links.

Answer 1

The following dependency must be declared somewhere, very likely as a transitive dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
  <artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
  <version>20100714-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <classifier>windows</classifier>
<dependency>

I suspect a bad pom if artifacts are not platform dependent anymore.

Is there any more recent snapshot you can use?