After re-reading, looking at examples, and reading the second to last post on this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/652555/can-someone-explain-the-ivy-xml-dependencys-conf-attribute I am am mostly convinced that it is:
my module's configuration -> other modules configuration mjparme wrote: > > The documentation regarding the syntax of the -> operator for conf mapping > is unnecessarily confusing and in fact contradicts itself. IMHO, it needs > to better define what it means by the master configuration and what is the > dependency configuration. > > Documentation is located here and the relevent section is Configuration > Mapping: > > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/dependency.html > > First sentence reads: "This mapping indicates which configurations of the > dependency are required in which configurations of the current module, > also called master configurations." > > This suggests that the master configuration is the "configuration of the > current module" which I assume is the ivy module file I am currently > looking at. > > However, later it says: "A good way to remember which side is for the > master configuration (i.e. the configuration of the module defining the > dependency) and which side is for the dependency configuration is to read > the '->' as 'depends on'." > > Now this suggests that the master configuration is the configuration of > the module of the artifact I am declaring as a dependency. > > This totally contradicts the first sentence of the section and this > documentation is totally ambiguous. > > Could someone clarify this for me? Is it: > > configuration of module file I am currently looking at -> (depends on) > configuration from artificat's module file > > or > > configuration from artifact's module file -> (depends on) configuration of > module file I am currently looking at > > The first option makes more sense to me, so that is what I think it is. > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/conf-mapping-documentation-contradicts-itself-tp28450261p28450450.html Sent from the ivy-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
