-------
If you want to bootstrap Maven, you'll need:
- Java 17+
- Maven 3.6.3 or later
- Run Maven, specifying a location into which the completed Maven distro should be installed:
    ```
    mvn -DdistributionTargetDir="$HOME/app/maven/apache-maven-4.0.x-SNAPSHOT" clean package
    ```


[home]: https://maven.apache.org/
[jira]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MNG/
[license]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  offline mode, and then test to see if the file-based basedir for an artifact
  repository works...if it doesn't work, we can mark that repository offline...

  OTOH, all offline-mode checks can probably be run from Wagon-based APIs.

** Maven-SCM

  In all but trivial examples, SCM operations cannot complete without
  having access to the versioning server. Therefore, it is assumed that