As explained in http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile.html, it seems you always need a real ivy.xml to describe the module you are building. So pom.xml will not be possible for in this case.
Regards, Marc 2014/1/13 KARR, DAVID <[email protected]> > I can see that when Ivy uses the "ibiblio" resolver, it's using the > "pom.xml" on artifacts to determine transitive dependencies. > > However, how do I make that happen for the initial artifact that I'm > building? > > I know that the feature set of the "ivy.xml" is slightly different from > the "pom.xml", but so far I don't see any possible conflicts. > > If I build an equivalent "pom.xml" for my "ivy.xml" and then move the > latter out of the way, Ivy says it can't find the "ivy.xml" file. >
