Do I understand correctly that to publish my project to Maven Central all dependencies need to be in...

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[Robert Jaros]

Do I understand correctly that to publish my project to Maven Central all dependencies need to be in Central as well? If so, can we expect kotlin-wrappers and kotlinx-nodejs artifacts to be published to Central anytime soon?

[Marc Knaup]

Each project’s setup decides where dependencies are loaded from. It may or may not include Maven Central, JCenter and any other repository.

It’s totally fine to have a library and its dependencies across different repositories. Best is to list the needed repositories in your library’s documentation.

[Marc Knaup]

But yeah, given JCenter’s end of life it’s likely that all Kotlin artifacts in JCenter will be moved to or published in Maven Central until then 🙂

[Vampire]

"need" is a too strong word, "should" is better.
But a very strong "should".
If it isn't the case it is really unhandy.

[Vampire]

Actually a POM can also reference other repositories where to get transitive dependencies from, but this should better not be used for published libraries and I think at least Gradle will ignore that.

[Vampire]

Here you find the requirements that are defined: https://central.sonatype.org/pages/requirements.html

[andylamax]

In addition to all that, I have artifacts in maven central with dependencies to kotlin-wrappers. Works as expected