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
>  
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