[IVY-1432] Artifacts that have a .pom but no .jar in local Maven cache should be skipped

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dave Syer
• Created: 21/Aug/13 09:35
• Updated: 21/Aug/13 14:18

Description

For Maven users the local cache repo can easily contain a .pom for a dependency but no corresponding .jar. Ivy treats this as a resolved dependency that does not exist, and hence fails, whereas it would actually be perfectly sane to skip it (and allow another resolver to have a go). Groovy and Gradle users experience this a lot (e.g. http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2034).

A simple workaround is to use a custom Repository in the localm2 (in Groovy Grab terms) resolver which answers false to exists() for the .pom resource if the corresponding .jar is not present.