ls fails to detect "sbt" in the project

[alaz]

The generated JSON is here. As you may see sbt is equal to false.

That's pretty ridiculous actually: since the JSON is generated from SBT plugin, sbt is supposed to be true :)

[softprops]

Um... I'll leave this issue unless I am misunderstanding you.

The project you want to publish is actually not a plugin. See the "Creating a Plugin" section of the sbt wiki.

The first thing you have to do is to tell sbt your project is an sbt plugin with

sbtPlugin := true

There not one line in your project that references that setting in your project so actually, the sbt property of your project is supposed to be false :) I can give you a quick tip and add it here if you want sbt to treat your project as a plugin.

For a short description of the json properties listed in the :version.json file, check my own documentation

I hope you don't think everything is ridiculous before you understand the tool :)

fwiw, I'm not even sure you meant for this to be a plugin but instead a library which works fine through ls - https://gist.github.com/1694858

Please clarify your question.

[alaz]

Uh-oh, my bad! I've just been inattentive to the documentation at ls.implicit.ly and simply didn't read that sbt in JSON means plugin vs. not a plugin. Since my project is not a plugin, everything works as expected, so I'm closing the issue. Really sorry for wasting your time and many thanks for the detailed answer!

Regards,
Alexander

[softprops]

no worries. I wouldn't disagree that I could always to a better job with my own documentation :)