@nedtwigg Please have a look at the transitive dependencies I omitted. Problem is that the current Provisioner only allows to get all dependencies, including the once excluded from the Spotless formatter dependencies. For spotless-eclipse-jdt, this only leads to a download of unnecessary JARs, but for example for spotless-eclipse-groovy it is fatal, since it will try to download some Maven coordinates not available on M2, but which are platform dependent and can therefore not easily be provided in the fat JAR.

I would like to have a dedicated PR, extending the Provisioner correspondingly.

@nedtwigg Not sure whether you had a look at my previous comment. This is an issue and makes this PR somewhat in-stable, since it leaves two transitive dependency versions "free" (within their major version) rolling. As I sated for 263, I would prefer it you can provide the required Provisioner changes (method or additional argument is needed, so that Provisioner does not resolve transitive dependencies), since it affects the core design.

Apologies @fvgh, I'm hard-capped on time right now and I don't have time to dig in deeper. My #1 priority is to never block somebody else's work just because I don't have time to review it, but initiating new work on the Provisioner isn't going to make the top of my todo list for weeks at least.