Can someone explain the ivy.xml dependency's conf attribute?

Question

I can\'t find any thorough explanation of the Ivy dependency tag\'s conf attribute:

Answer 1

Thanks VonC!

It helped me alot further.

When it comes to options (configurations) tieTYT, you can find them in the ivy-[revision number].xml file in your Ivy repository under: organization name --> module name.

An example configurations element from the JUnit 4.6 revision downloaded from http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/.

In my project's ivy.xml file, I have a configuration compile-test. In the dependencies element I have the following dependency:

As you can see, my compile-test configuration depends on the compile configuration in the JUnit's ivy.xml file.