grossws commented on code in PR #1141: URL: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1141#discussion_r1022793318
########## src/site/markdown/maven-artifacts.md.vm: ########## @@ -149,14 +149,29 @@ file. When you specify the version identifier in this section, you don't have to </dependencyManagement> ``` -To use this with Gradle, an additional [Gradle plugin](https://github.com/spring-gradle-plugins/dependency-management-plugin) +Gradle 5.0+ supports importing Maven BOM as a [platform](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/platforms.html#sub:bom_import) +to align dependency versions. + +`build.gradle` + +``` +dependencies { + implementation platform('org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-bom:${Log4jReleaseVersion}') + + implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api' + implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core' Review Comment: I usually use `runtimeOnly` for it but saw the following: > However, below we list Log4j core as a compile time dependency to improve the startup time for [custom plugins](https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/plugins.html) as it provides an annotation processor that generates a metadata file to cache plugin information as well as the necessary code to compile against to create custom plugins -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
