In Grails 1.2 an Ivy dependency resolution DSL was added to
BuildConfig.groovy that allowed you to specify your dependency resolution in
Groovy.

This was good.

The problem was, it doesn’t support Maven classifiers.

This is bad.

I’ve looked at the DSL implementation and I don’t think it’s really that
hard to add it and I’m going to try my hand at fixing it in the next few days,
but in the meantime, I’ve come up with a workaround.

The workaround (really hacky I may add) is below: