[IVY-208] Separate dependency download failure from unknown configuration failure

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.1
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew P. Inger
• Due: 17/Nov/06
• Created: 06/Apr/06 15:04
• Updated: 01/Sep/17 16:17

Description

I think it's important to separate the following two errors:

1. Unresolved dependency
2. Unknown configuration

These are two completely different errors, and the caller should have the ability to treat them
different. For example, if my ivy file has two configurations defined:

compile
test

And I ask ivy to resolve the configuration "foo", I should be able tell ivy that i really don't care
if "foo" doesn't exist. If i try to get a fileset from it later, i'll just get an empty one.

Right now, it fails just as if some jar in the "compile" configuration couldn't be found.

I will look at the code, to see how easy it would be to do this.