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@wtlangford Any updates on doing a release?

What are you running when you get the error? And what is in your BUILD file?

Can you workaround this by adjusting the classpath order so you load the class you want first? If you still want to go the route of manipulating a third party...

I'm not sure coursier has a way to add local maven repositories for fetching artifacts. They added a `m2local` option with https://github.com/coursier/coursier/issues/667 but that does not allow arbitrary directories to...

If you don't put the credentials in the url and use a [properties file for coursier](https://get-coursier.io/docs/other-credentials.html#property-file) can you pin the artifacts without having the username and password in the `maven_install.json`...

Alternatively, the rules will add the entries from `~/.netrc` file if it exists and you're not on Windows. If you add entries to your `~/.netrc` file and remove the `username:password`...

After doing some local testing it looks as if `coursier` does not use the netrc file so when you are pinning artifacts it will only use the credentials in the...

I suspect this is more of the scala_binary rule being strict about the dependencies it includes rather than the jvm external rules not resolving the transitive dependencies. If you set...

This would probably mean parsing the version strings directly since nothing on the [ComparableVersion](https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.5.2/maven-artifact/apidocs/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.html) class exposes information about the version string. Maybe an ok way to get there would be...

I believe this was fixed with https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/pull/721 ?