Hi Marko, Hi Xavier,
On Jul 15, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Marko Bauhardt wrote:
Hi all,
maven and i think ivy (http://www.jaya.free.fr/ivy/doc/ivyfile/
dependency.html) supports version ranges.
i dont find something in the userguide from gradle.
but i tried this in my build file
compile ":commons-httpclient:3.0.+"
and gradle gets the jar with the highest version from my local lib
folder.
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found #commons-httpclient;3.0.7 in lib
[3.0.7] #commons-httpclient;3.+
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is this a hidden feature of gradle? supports gradle version ranges?
We delegate the version to Ivy. So as Xavier has said, what Ivy can
do here, is offered by Gradle. The thing is that I still haven't
digested all of Ivy's features. That is one reason why our layer on
top does not offer everything which Ivy offers. In this case it is
passed through and works in other cases we prevent people from using
the full power of Ivy (e.g. global excludes). But usually you can use
the Ivy API directly in such scenarios and hook the Ivy classes you
have created into Gradle's dependency layer. Sometimes this is a bit
of hack. We have three strategies to improve this.
- Adding features to Gradle's Ivy DSL
- Offer a clean interface to hook into for manipulating some of the
Ivy classes we generate (e.g. the ModuleDescriptor).
- Offer support for using the ivy.xml and ivysettings.xml as an
alternative notation to the dependency notation in the build.gradle
file. Possibly we even provide a merge feature.
- Hans
--
Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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