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so it seems like resolve.ivy --report generates a nice XML report behind the scenes

but I don't know how to (as a wannabe consumer of that XML) figure out where it puts it

oh, I can set outdir, but it doesn't seem to pay attention to me when I do that

--resolve-ivy-outdir hides the .xml files from me :disappointed:

Are you (the consumer) a Pants custom task or just a post-Pants-run consumer?

although I suppose I could create a custom task if it facilitates things. I really just want to get the resolve report xml file and feed it to a tool that checks my versions

Maybe you can just use? `./pants export --libraries 3rdparty:libthrift-0.9.2` - that has the advantage of being public, stable and won't go away when we some day switch off ivy.

That'll work for any target, happened to pick a `jar_library` in pantsbuild.

hmmm, my goal is to figure out all of my ivy dependencies, transitively

so I can query for out-of-dateness and other goodies like that

oh, hmm, pants export --libraries 3rdparty/jvm:foo will give me some good info

also, should I expect to be able to run arbitrary python inside BUILD files?

or is there some defined subset I should stick to?

&gt; but how can I query all of them?

You can list any target you want, even `::`

&gt; also, should I expect to be able to run arbitrary python inside BUILD files?

For now, yes, but this is definitely going away, you should write a plugin instead - this can be a loose-source plugin housed in the very repo that needs it.

It really sounds like this whole bit needs to be a plugin

Well - does normal resolution work that way? ie `./pants resolve ::` ?

e.g., 

````
$ ./pants export --libraries 3rdparty/jvm::
                                                                                                             
FAILURE
Exception caught: (&lt;class 'pants.backend.jvm.ivy_utils.IvyError'&gt;)
````

1. please use `--print-exception-stacktrace`
2. please try `./pants resolve 3rdparty/jvm::`

yeah, `./pants resolve ::` works most of the way (it's missing a couple of libs but that's another problem)

oh, actually it's probably the same IvyError

let me resolve the issue with :: and see if it's still unhappy

okay you were right :slightly_smiling_face:

it was just less clear about the source of the error in `export --libraries`

so is this export output showing me transitive deps?