RootProject
and ProjectRef
(just ProjectReference
's in general) are to reference SBT projects so they fully resolvable and their dependencies handled properly (via appropriate Resolvers
for file, svn, git and hg). It won't however work with non-SBT projects - under Maven, Ant, Gradle or similar. Just SBT ones.
You may want to give externalPom a try. I didn't, so can't comment on its use.