I want to address <https://github.com/coursier/cou...
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h
I want to address https://github.com/coursier/coursier/issues/754#issuecomment-362950586 so I can switch to using coursier, but I’m unwilling to wade through the excessive functional BS
w
which @gorgeous-alligator-94763 is working on
g
Is it related? looks like something different to me, but I don’t know coursier as well as you
w
oh…not really @gorgeous-alligator-94763 your PR is to fetch a single jar that could exist anywhere, whereas @happy-kitchen-89482 already has a local repo. If it is a local maven repo already, then https://github.com/coursier/coursier/issues/710#issuecomment-350596224 is already doable, but @happy-kitchen-89482’s issue is to have coursier to understand a local repo but in ivy’s structure
h
These aren’t quite the same. The repo I’m talking about might be remote, or local, but the important point is that it doesn’t have ivy.xml files.
But it still has ivy URL structure, so we need the ivy placeholder machinery
we just need it not to choke if there’s no ivy.xml available
But again, could be a remote repo too
w
I see. In that case it’s necessary to tell coursier how to behave without ivy.xml. Can you work around it with a dummy ivy.xml?
they have a gitter channel jfyi
h
In one case I don't control the remote repo, so I can't stick a dummy file there, but maybe I can work around that