On 16/04/2011, at 12:22 AM, John Murph wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Adam Murdoch <[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.
Could you share some more details of the problem you're solving this way? I'm curious about the actual problems people are using a 'provided' configuration for. I'm pretty sure there are better ways to solve these problems. -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
