I’m just learning about gradle “platforms” and was...

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[David Smith]

I’m just learning about gradle “platforms” and was wondering if anyone aware of a community maintained gradle platform or similar that basically has every dependency you could ever want? Coming from the Haskell world we have https://www.stackage.org/ which basically gets rid of a huge amount of dependency hell.

[Big Chungus]

Not really, but there are lots of things that make this as smooth sailing as possible.

Have a look at these:
https://github.com/mpetuska/kamp
https://github.com/mpetuska/template-kmp-library
https://github.com/jmfayard/refreshVersions

There's also kotlin bom (or platform as it's called in gradle) that manages your kotlin dependencies from jb

[Big Chungus]

Honestly, with refreshVersions alone the experience is excellent!

[Big Chungus]

There's also a gradle "platform" for pretty much any popular framework like spring as well

[Big Chungus]

Oh and there's also this still incubating https://github.com/JavierSegoviaCordoba/massive-catalogs

[David Smith]

awesome thanks!

[David Smith]

is refreshVersions somewhat replaced by gradle catalogs?

[David Smith]

it seems the declaring versions part is

[Big Chungus]

Yes and no.

[Big Chungus]

Refresh versions aims to help you quickly get latest versions for new dependencies and easily upgrade them in the future. Catalogs, however lock you to a particular set of versions without you having to declare them

[Javier]

Catalogs allow overwrite versions too, but I am not sure if refreshVersions is going to give support to use TOML files

[Javier]

Louis was talking with melix about this, cc @louiscad

[David Smith]

@Javier is massive catalogs intended to be a place for the community to gather versions for everything?

[David Smith]

oh, looking at kamp I’m unsure what is what

[David Smith]

so do you use kamp to generate massive catalogs?

[Big Chungus]

Kamp is just a website to help you find libraries for your chosen set of kotlin platforms

[Javier]

Massive Catalogs has multiple artifacts, one of them is powered by Kamp scanner, and it has all libraries you can see in Kamp website, with the latest version

[Big Chungus]

It's powered by generic maven repo scanner that scans mavenCentral and feeds the data into kamp. Same scanner is utilised by massive-catalogs

[louiscad]

Keep in mind version catalogs in Gradle 7 are incubating. I expect to send a bunch of feedback to Gradle once I tried to integrate support for them in refreshVersions.

[Fleshgrinder]

https://massive-catalogs.javiersc.com/ gives me 404

[Javier]

Yeah, because there is not an stable version yet

[Javier]

https://massive-catalogs.javiersc.com/snapshot/

[Javier]

anyways, it is an automation, docs for this project are almost useless, all modules are "empty"

[Fleshgrinder]

Just wanted to figure out more about it. 🙂

[Javier]

I was improving how I create docs, today indeed. I will try to update them in that project the next week :)

[Javier]

@Fleshgrinder I pushed them