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

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As a consumer, you can provide fallback.  For example conf=3D"optional(runt=
ime)".  If optional is there, you get that.  If not, it tries runtime.  You=
 can provide multiple values inside the fallback.  Another example, we use =
"main" in our ivy.xml and this maps to "compile" in maven pom.  So, when li=
nking to an internal project, we specify conf=3D"main(compile)".  Now we ca=
n have project linked in local workspace or consumed from repository with o=
nly maven artifacts.

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From: Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2026 9:13 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: 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.=E2=80=8Axml would supply anything that the pom does not already de=
scribe. When ivy consumes, the pom is converted into a suitable ivy.=E2=80=
=8Axml. I'm not sure. What if I


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 alr=
eady 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

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