So now that http://scala-tools.org is back, I could build a basic scala app for about 30 minutes before I started getting this lovely error:

[INFO] Velocimacro : initialization starting.
[INFO] Velocimacro : adding VMs from VM library template : VM_global_library.vm
[ERROR] ResourceManager : unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm' in any resource loader.
[INFO] Velocimacro : error using VM library template VM_global_library.vm : org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource 'VM_global_library.vm'

and

[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /Users/adrian/development/lift-dev
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.mutteringmadman
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: evolve
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 43,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 71,column 16] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[WARNING] org.apache.velocity.runtime.exception.ReferenceException: reference : template = archetype-resources/pom.xml [line 97,column 25] : ${scala.version} is not a valid reference.
[INFO] ********************* End of debug info from resources from generated POM ***********************

We like that.