[gradle-dev] Changing the name for configurations

[Hans Dockter]

I would love to have a better name for configurations. Initially I  
just took this name from Ivy as I couldn't think of anything better.  
Even with Ivy I guess it is not a perfect name. But in the context of  
a build system it is really confusing.

Mostly configurations are classpaths, but not always (e.g. they may  
contain distribution archives). Why not calling configurations paths?

paths {
   compile "commons-io:commons-io:1.4"
}

paths.compile.files ...

Thoughts? Better names?

I know that this would be a pretty disruptive change. It would have  
been much better to have done this earlier. But that's why we are  
still pre 1.0.

- Hans

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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project Manager
http://www.gradle.org


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