"Cannot find symbol" or "could not find artifact" when referencing parent dir's pom.xml

[Chris]

Update: managed to fix this by moving the parent pom.xml into a new sibling
module. Shouldn't archetype:generate do this automatically when the project
is initially a single-module one?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:17 PM Chris <seahen123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> PS. In case it makes a difference, I'm *very* new to the idea of having
> more than one pom.xml in the same project (where "project" means everything
> that goes in one GitHub repo).
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:16 PM Chris <seahen123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After running the recommended archetype:generate and trying everything I
>> can think of, I always either get "cannot find symbol" or "Could not find
>> artifact
>> io.github.pr0methean.betterrandom:BetterRandom:jar:0.9.1.2-SNAPSHOT". What
>> do I need to do to get the child pom.xml to recognize the parent as a
>> source? Would it be possible to merge them into one? Both are attached.
>>
>