/playground-gradle-bom-dep-manage

Primary LanguageKotlin

playground-gradle-bom-dep-manage

A sample project managing the dependencies using BoM.

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Centralized dependency versions feature will be introduced at Gradle 7.x. That may solve all the dependency management issues.

Architecture

:platform

Manages the all of dependencies throwgth project using Java Platform plugin.

Pros/Cons

Comparison with dependency management using buildSrc.

Pros

  • Don't need to use buildSrc for the dependency management.
  • Don't need to re-compile buildSrc sources when the dependencies changed.
  • Dependabot and Renovate works!! See PRs.

Cons

  • Needs to declare the dependencies with String like implementation("group.id:artifact-id”) on each submodule’s dependencies block.
  • Needs to add implementation(platform(project(":platform"))) on each submodule’s dependencies block.