Hi, With eachDependency { … } it was not possible to replace an external dependency with a project dependency. Will this be possible with this notation? It would be awesome if this was possible.
-- Lóránt On Monday 4 August 2014 at 11:30, Szczepan Faber wrote: > Thanks Daz for input! Is the implementation of version-selection rules > happening soon? > > It looks like that we're getting to consensus regarding the API: > > dependencies { > components { > modules(moduleSelectorNotation) { detailsObject -> > detailsObject.replacedBy(moduleSelectorNotation) > } > } > } > > 1. I'm curious if there is a plan to align dependency resolve rules > and version selection rules in some way? > 2. Do we want to use an existing imperative API > "dependencies.components.eachComponent" as a way to pass down the > 'replacedBy' declarations to the resolution algorithm? E.g. > declarative data 'dependencies.components.modules' would form one of > the 'eachComponent' rules behind the hood. Based on Adam's feedback, I > assume that we _don't_ want to do this. > > Cheers! > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Daz DeBoer > <darrell.deb...@gradleware.com (mailto:darrell.deb...@gradleware.com)> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Szczepan Faber <szcze...@gmail.com > > (mailto:szcze...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > > > > > > > b) I would add some higher level api that would use a). For example: > > > > > > dependencies { > > > components { > > > > > > modules("com.google.collections:google-collections").deprecatedBy("com.google.guava:guava") > > > //or replacedBy(), supersededBy() > > > } > > > } > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > We're designing a similar DSL for targeting version-selection rules to a > > particular module or set of modules > > (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/design-docs/component-metadata.md#story-build-script-targets-versionselection-rule-to-particular-module). > > > > I'm not sold on that DSL, but we do need a way to say "this block applies to > > _all_ modules". > > > > I guess we can either choose to use a string-based selector for choosing the > > modules that apply: > > > > dependencies { > > components/versions/some-other-rule-type { > > modules('*') { > > } > > modules('com.google.guava:*') { > > } > > modules('com.google.guava:guava') { > > } > > } > > > > Or use explicit parameters: > > > > dependencies { > > components/versions/some-other-rule-type { > > allModules { > > } > > group('com.google.guava') { > > } > > group('com.google.guave').name('guava') { > > } > > } > > > > I think I prefer the first approach. But we should definitely aim for > > consistency here. > > -- > > > > Darrell (Daz) DeBoer > > http://www.gradleware.com > > > > > > > -- > Szczepan Faber > Core dev@gradle; Founder@mockito > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email