Can multi-projects from GIT be used as SBT dependencies?
banana-rdf, sbt, scala
Solution
I depend on Banana RDF subprojects all the time with `ProjectRef`, like this:
lazy val core: Project = Project(
...
).dependsOn(
ProjectRef(uri("git://github.com/w3c/banana-rdf.git"), "banana-jena")
)
One especially nice part is that you can just tack a commit or branch name as a fragment identifier on the URI and everything works exactly as you'd expect.
Problem
I would like to use banana-rdf in my project, ideally by defining it as a dependency in a `build.scala` using `dependsOn`: ``` lazy val root = Project("root", file(".")) dependsOn RootProject(uri("git://github.com/w3c/banana-rdf")) ``` However, banana-rdf is a multi-project so needs to be composed differently. From what I can see, these multi-project definitions only allow you to specify project locations as file paths, and won't allow URIs. Question: Am I right in saying that I have to clone these multi-project GIT dependencies into my project and reference them as folders? I rather like the idea of leaving all the GIT cloning up to SBT, and having these cloned in some tmp SBT folder rather than cluttering up my project...