On 15/04/2011 15:22, John Murph wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Adam Murdoch
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> On 15/04/2011, at 1:59 AM, Jason Porter wrote:
>
>> Has there been any work done on this issue (providedCompile
>> outside of war projects)? I see Hans said this would be a 1.0
>> thing, and probably something to do with the publishing API rework.
>
> I'm not sure we want to do this, at least not without a good use
> case. Do you have an example of why you want a provideCompile
> configuration?
>
>
>
> I'll just chime in that we also have a need for this. It's easy enough
> to solve (we have a "provided" custom configuration we are using), but
> it seems common enough that Gradle should provide this right out of the
> box.
>
We also have a "provided" configuration and it seems like a common
requirement. Lots of project modules are compiled against the
servlet-api, even though they aren't actually WAR files, and you don't
want it exported as a transitive dependency.
It might also help the IDEA and Eclipse plugins to set up the dependency
scope/export information correctly.
Luke.
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