Re: Any idea why Ivy only publishes a POM and not an ivy.xml?

On 2026-08-03, Milles, Eric (TR Technology) via dev wrote:

> I don't think the ivy.xml would supply anything that the pom does not already describe.  When ivy consumes, the pom is converted into a suitable ivy.xml.

I'm not sure. What if I as a counsumer of the ivy file want to use a
specific configuration of it?

For example Ivy itself has configurations for "optional" stuff that are
specific for some use cases. When I've got Ivy's ivy.xml I can say
something like default->httpclient and get the transitive dependencies
of core and httpclient as dependencies of my default configuration. With
"only" the POM I need to do default->default,optional and get way more
than I want. At lest this is my current understanding.

Stefan