Support non-jar maven artifacts

[DiegoCoronel]

My case was something like run this sample http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/ as simple as maven does.
Theres lots of cases like that and migration or integration with maven projects to ceylon will be good for more adoption.

[FroMage]

Apparently that's a module with no jars but lots of dependencies.

[DiegoCoronel]

I need to expose that I am very sorry that is very short notice to put in version 1.2, it can actually hinder the adoption I want to do in my business ... definitely no one will want to manage the dependencies of modules manually.

[FroMage]

Well, it can always go in 1.2.1.

[jvasileff]

I suspect this has less to do with there being no jars, and more so with Ceylon not following the implicit contract with maven modules that transitive dependencies be exported.

Perhaps a new annotation on module imports should exist that forces auto-sharing of maven transitive dependencies. Such a feature would have the dramatic impact of making many things work today that don't. (Conflict resolution would of course still be necessary in some cases, but would be less of a challenge.)

Alternately, @DiegoCoronel, as a practical matter, I've found that using gradle (or perhaps mvn) to create a single "fat" jar with all dependencies, then importing the fat jar as a Ceylon module, works when building applications.

[FroMage]

I suspect this has less to do with there being no jars, and more so with Ceylon not following the implicit contract with maven modules that transitive dependencies be exported.

I really don't think so. The CMR is built to treat each module as having a jar/car file, and this one does not have one.

[jvasileff]

Actually, spring-boot-starter-web does have a jar.

[FroMage]

Ah, that's not what we figured at the time, weird.

[DiegoCoronel]

this is latest: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/spring-boot-starters/spring-boot-starter-web/pom.xml

[jvasileff]

Here's their repo for that one: https://repo.spring.io/webapp/#/artifacts/browse/simple/General/snapshot/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-web/1.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT