Dependency problems when building EMRAPI

[raff (Rafal Korytkowski)]

Switching to 2.4-SNAPSHOT distro is a good option. Another possibility is to use provided scope for any openmrs dependencies as in this fix:

Fixed to use provided scope for openmrs dependencies

We’ll keep hitting that issue until we fix building the distro and release a new version. See:

Reference Application release process needs to be fixed

As part of the last OpenMRS 2.3 release, we have released emr-api:1.11.1 with the referenceapplication:2.3-SNAPSHOT dependency. As a result emr-api:1.11.1 cannot be used as a dependency in any module, because it requires at build time referenceapplication:2.3-SNAPSHOT, which no longer exists. The issue is we couldn’t have released emr-api:1.11.1 with the referenceapplication:2.2 dependency, because it needed some dependencies declared in referenceapplication:2.3-SNAPSHOT. At the same time refere…