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sbt has now completely moved to GitHub.

See https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Library-Management.

Scala Jars and Dependency Management

sbt checks and filters managed dependencies on Scala libraries, such as scala-library.jar and scala-compiler.jar. This page explains the details of this behavior.

Explicit Scala Dependencies

sbt checks that the revisions of any explicit dependencies on Scala libraries match that of the scala.version declared for the project. For example, sbt would generate an error if you defined scala.version to be 2.7.2 but had the following in your project definition:

 val scalaSwing = "org.scala-lang" % "scala-swing" % "2.7.3"

To disable this check, set:

  override def checkExplicitScalaDependencies = true

Filtering Scala Dependencies

sbt excludes all dependencies on scala-library.jar and scala-compiler.jar so that these will not be downloaded. sbt does this because it already provides the right versions of scala-library.jar and scala-compiler.jar required for normal use. In particular,

• If your main sources depend on scala-compiler.jar, scala-compiler.jar is added to runClasspath so that compiler classes are available for the run command.
• If your test sources depend on scala-compiler.jar, scala-compiler.jar is added to testClasspath so that the compiler classes are available for tests.
• You have access to these jars as described in the next section

If you need to explicitly reference the Scala jars used by sbt, see the Access to Scala Jars and Dependencies section below.

sbt can be configured to skip these checks in certain cases, but this should be considered atypical. If you want to do this anyway, you should define a non-standard configuration and exclude it from the configurations on which sbt performs checks and filtering:

  val other = config("scalac-2.7.3")
  override def checkScalaInConfigurations = super.checkScalaInConfigurations - other
  val scalac2_7_3 = "org.scala-lang" % "scala-compiler" % "2.7.3" % "scalac-2.7.3"

You might use this to call java using the classpath given by managedClasspath("scalac-2.7.3"), for example.

To completely disable all filtering of dependencies, set

  override def filterScalaJars = false

Access to Scala Jars and Dependencies

• The ScalaInstance corresponding to the version of Scala currently building your project is obtained by the buildScalaInstance method. The libraryJar and compilerJar methods of a ScalaInstance provide the locations of the jars for the Scala version it represents. There are also the convenience methods buildCompilerJar and buildLibraryJar defined on Project.
• Two methods on a project definition, mainDependencies and testDependencies, provide an analysis of the external dependencies (jars) of your code as determined during compilation. Because it relies on information determined during compilation, the information is only valid when compilation is up to date. These methods return an instance of LibraryDependencies. Read the API Documentation for more information.