srcdeps.masterConfig - build direct and transitive dependencies with a single srcdeps.yaml file
Before srcdeps-maven 3.4.0 and srcdeps.yaml model version 2.4, building of dependencies from source "on the
fly" worked only for direct dependencies. If my-project depended on dependency-1, I could declare dependency-1
as a source dependency in srcdeps.yaml of my-project. But if I also wanted a specific unreleased commit of
dependency-2, which dependency-1 depends on (and needs to be built and run against), I had no other option than
fork dependency-1 and add srcdeps.yaml with dependency-2 there.
The new srcdeps.masterConfig feature allows you to avoid the intermediary srcdeps.yaml files. Now you can declare
dependency-2 in the srcdeps.yaml file of my-project and you do not need to fork dependency-1.
How it works
srcdeps.yaml configuration model version 2.4 introduces a new boolean attribute forwardAsMasterConfig. If it
is true, the URI of the current srcdeps.yaml file will be forwarded as a system property srcdeps.masterConfig to
every dependency builder. The dependency builder picks srcdeps.yaml from the URI, uses it during its own build and
forwards it to every dependency build it triggers itself.
With forwardAsMasterConfig: true the dependency also does not need to have srcdeps-maven-local-repository declared
in its .mvn/extensions.xml. After checking out the sources of the dependency, srcdeps-maven auto-creates (or
upgrades) the .mvn/extensions.xml file as necessary.
forwardAsMasterConfig attribute is optional and the default value is false.