I'm trying to wrap my head around the conf mapping of "*->#" (and it's older cousin, "*->@"). Here's what the Ivy 2.2 docs say:
since 1.4 '#' can be used as right side operand to mean 'this' configuration, and thus refers to the configuration being resolved. It is slightly similar to @, except that it takes into account the configuration being actually resolved in case of a configuration extending another one. Example: Let's foo be a module with two configurations, A and B, B extending A. Then a dependency declaring conf A-># will get A dep conf in its confs A (when resolving A, ivy will find interpret the # symbol as A) and B dep conf in its conf B (when resolving B, ivy will interpret the # symbol as B, even if this dependency is only required because of the A dependency). If you don't understand really how this works, do not use it :-) I think I want to use it but the last sentence made me laugh because, needless to say, I don't understand the explanation. Can anyone provide some concrete examples? Thanks, Rich
