I'm writing maven plugin which depends on several java tools. I'm quite happy with it and want to share it with the community. I'm interested in correct way to handle dependency to these tools:Use usual dependency way - put to central repository. But I'm not owner of these tools and I'm not going to maintain them. But I could start discussion with authorAs I saw like several other plugins require for user to download these tools and provide path to them through configuration. But they are java tools, as well this is much less convenient for the end usersI'm asking community what would be the best and right in maven way to handle this.
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