Allow using a library from github, similar to what sbt can do

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not all libraries are published on maven, some are only on github or other places. Currently scala-cli cannot depend on a repo outside of maven (if I have understood it correctly?).

Describe the solution you’d like

I’d like to be able to depend on a jar released on GitHub (and elsewhere) In a similar way as sbt allows for this, for example (sbt syntax):

libraryDependencies += "tabby" % "tabby" % "0.2.3" from 
  s"https://github.com/bjornregnell/tabby/releases/download/v$tabbyVer/tabby_3-0.2.3.jar"

it would be very useful if the using directive of scala-cli could point to a jar on the net.

Additional context This should, if implemented, be documented with a simple example here: https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/docs/guides/dependencies/

[bjornregnell]

l I reckon this “just works” as well 😃

Wow - it really “just works” like a charm! Many thank’s @armanbilge for making me aware of this - I didn’t realize that jitpack does its thing even without me doing anything else 😃

(But even with this option, it would be useful if scala-cli could allow a jar dependency directly from e.g. github without the need for jitpack, as this is yet another (meta-)depedency…)

[armanbilge]

• https://github.com/VirtusLab/scala-cli/issues/775