Talking with @PurelyApplied, we should wait until gradle releases support for optional dependencies (coming soon) and then remove this black magic stuff.
Implementation dependencies are published - they are published as runtime dependencies in the maven pom. So if they are marked optional, they should be optional in the pom. [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/3314 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
