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New Gradle Plugin: DepNames

Posted by: Robert Fischer on 11/20/2010

I just released the DepNames plugin for Gradle. It’s part of my gradle-plugins collection, appearing in version 0.6.6. You can read the description with an example from the README, but the basic idea is that you can create “keywords” for your common external dependencies.

So this line:

dependencies { compile "org.apache.felix:org.apache.felix.framework:3.0.1"
}

Becomes this line:

dependencies { compile felix
}

And if you can upgrade your definition of felix in one place and all your projects get the same upgrade. The dependency keywords can be defined in either the root project or globally (with the root project definitions trumping the global ones).

This post was by Robert Fischer, written on November 20, 2010.
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Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.

Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.

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