scala-library.jar version in sbt published artifacts

Question

As Scala 2.10.1 is coming out soon, I believe, I want to make sure that artifacts I publish now will automatically work with a scala-library.jar of that version. I use sbt 0.12.2 to publish, and with a setting of

scalaVersion := "2.10.0"

I get correctly attached the binary compatible version to my artifact, e.g.

<artifactId>mylibrary_2.10</artifactId>

...but the scala library dependency still says 2.10.0:

     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
        <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
        <version>2.10.0</version> <!-- !!! -->
    </dependency>

I suppose that is not correct, and it should use 2.10 or 2.10.+ here?

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I also tried to add scalaBinaryVersion := "2.10" but that doesn't seem to change anything.

Another idea I had was to use scalaVersion := "2.10.+". Sbt takes forever with Getting Scala 2.10.+ ..., but it finally goes on fine and the pom has this version now for scala-library.jar. So maybe this is the correct way?

Answer 1

You should be good to go for 2.10.x, since it is meant to be binary compatible between minor versions (as documented in the release notes).

In general, you can generate artifacts for arbitrary versions of Scala using the crossScalaVersions setting in sbt.

build.sbt

name := "so-14803362"

scalaVersion := "2.10.0"

crossScalaVersions := Seq("2.10.0", "2.10.1", "2.10.2")

With the above configuration, you can prepend a + to sbt commands to run them for each Scala version:

> + publish

This will build and publish your project's artifacts with each Scala version listed in crossScalaVersions.

See the sbt docs for more info.