On 04/08/2011, at 12:47 PM, Hani Suleiman wrote:

> On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Luke Daley wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 03/08/2011, at 12:20 AM, Hani Suleiman wrote:
>> 
>>> There are a lot of very annoying transitive dependencies that get sucked in 
>>> when building against gradleApi().
>>> 
>>> For example, we end up with log4j-over-slf4j, which is a thin facade for 
>>> log4j but does not cover the whole API. So any projects for example that 
>>> try to configure log4j directly will fail to compile, even if they declare 
>>> a dependency on log4j explicitly due to this extra jar being sucked in. 
>>> Similarly for jcl-over-slf4j, and probably a number of other jars that 
>>> should remain internal to gradle and are only required at runtime, not 
>>> compile time (the commons-* army, for example).
>> 
>> Please raise an issue for this. When compiling against the Gradle API, 
>> Gradle's runtime shouldn't be on the compile classpath.
>> 
> http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1715

Thanks.

-- 
Luke Daley
Principal Engineer, Gradleware 
http://gradleware.com


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