[Geoserver-devel] trunk (ie 1.8) requires 1.7 to build

I am getting a few problems compiling on trunk... based on the following from main/pom.xml

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.geoserver</groupId>
      <artifactId>ows</artifactId>
      <version>1.8.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.geoserver</groupId>
      <artifactId>ows</artifactId>
      <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <classifier>tests</classifier>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

It looks like you need to build 1.7 locally; and only then you can build trunk?
Jody