Just migrated my pet project to dsl, so far so goo...

# gradle

[ghedeon]

Just migrated my pet project to dsl, so far so good. Glad to be in a club 😉 . I keep my dependencies in a separate file in buildSrc (good explanation: https://caster.io/lessons/gradle-dependency-management-using-kotlin-and-buildsrc-for-buildgradle-autocomplete-in-android-studio). Obviously, all the checks for updates are gone. How do you deal with it? Any custom plugins that tackle this inconvenience?

[octylFractal]

I typically use https://github.com/ben-manes/gradle-versions-plugin

[octylFractal]

I have a Gradle initscript setup to apply this plugin + some configuration if (project.hasProperty("versions")), so you can do gradle :depUpdates -Pversions and get updates, even if the plugin isn't part of your project

[ghedeon]

worked as expected, thanks! Could you be so kind to elaborate on initsript? Maybe you've got a github link handy.

[octylFractal]

unfortunately I don't, and I'm away from my computer right now. I'll gist it as soon as I can

[Czar]

It is beautifully explained in gradle official documentation: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/init_scripts.html
Very useful feature

[jmfayard]

@ghedeon @Czar FYI I made a wrapper around the gradle-versions-plugin that specifically targets the buildSrc module
https://github.com/jmfayard/buildSrcVersions

[ghedeon]

@jmfayard thanks! Is it possible to customize the names of generated files?

[jmfayard]

@ghedeon Not currently. You can open an issue with your use case if you feel that's important.