last question for the night, I hope. anyone have any idea's about this problem? <https://stackoverfl...

# gradle

[xenoterracide]

last question for the night, I hope. anyone have any idea's about this problem? https://stackoverflow.com/q/47880167/206466

[gildor]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47880167/how-can-i-git-clone-in-a-composite-gradle-project/47919548#47919548

[xenoterracide]

clever, I had thought of that

[xenoterracide]

and or just shelling out to system myself

[xenoterracide]

will that work if gitClone is part of build

[xenoterracide]

or will clone always have to be done as it's own step

[gildor]

It depends on your case. I would choose gitClone as a separate optional step, if you don’t need those repos for all cases all the time

[xenoterracide]

well, since it seems idempotent, I wasn't worried about it

[xenoterracide]

I think in this case I do

[gildor]

just because not sure how good multi-git with incremental builds

[xenoterracide]

should be the same as any composite build?

[xenoterracide]

but I'm not sure about that either

[gildor]

Yes, should be the same

[gildor]

We use approach with conditional include a lot as optional way to develop library together with our app

[xenoterracide]

how do you do the conditional include? I imagine you have some way to do jar or git?

[gildor]

we just clone required repo manually to a special ignored dir

[gildor]

so don’t use gradle to manage repos for you

[xenoterracide]

ah, so you don't have a jar that you use if the source isn't there

[gildor]

yes, we use sources

[gildor]

because main case: clone some library sources, include as a composite builde, change lib, [optional] change app to work with new lib version, commit lib, publish, commit app that uses new version of library

[gildor]

composite build just allow to develop and test library together with app, so it much faster and easy

[xenoterracide]

exactly why I plan to do this 😉

[xenoterracide]

I was just wondering because you suggested you had the option not to develop the app with the libraries

[gildor]

don’t have a jar that you use if the source isn’t there

oh, I misunderstand you, we don’t use local jar, but we have published jar as external dependency that used, if you don’t have library in your composite build

[xenoterracide]

oh, I get it, I was having a derp thinking, but then how does the composite build work, but duh

[xenoterracide]

ok, I'll go on to implementing this, which solves big headache

[xenoterracide]

might convert that build to kotlin too

[gildor]

Also, we do not include git config in gradle, because each developer works in own fork of library repo, so you can clone any repo for local development

[gildor]

also, we use this approach to be more flexible:
//settings.gradle

if (file('local-settings.gradle').exists()) {
    // You can create file  local-settings.gradle in root dir and
    // add to this file your local modules or composite builds
    apply from: 'local-settings.gradle'
}

[gildor]

local-settings.gradle in .gitignore, so each developer can include any projects just put them to local-settings.gradle and do not worry about modified settings.gradle that should be under vcs control

[gildor]

you also can include some test modules there

[xenoterracide]

that's cool

[xenoterracide]

honestly I was looking into switching to gradle in part just because I thought composite builds were possible, and that I might be able to do main, test-lib, test

[xenoterracide]

instead of just main, test

[xenoterracide]

maven > gradle > gradle w/ kotlin

[xenoterracide]

ugh can I stop reworking build scripts

[xenoterracide]

lol

[xenoterracide]

btw, do you have any better way of sharing plugin configuration amongst your composite libs, than writing a "plugin bundle"?, or copy and paste

[gildor]

sharing plugin configuration amongst your composite libs

Sharing plugin configuration?

[gildor]

Composite builds completely independent, you cannot share anything

[gildor]

but you can write own plugin that encapsulate that logic for your projects

[gildor]

Also, you can use script plugins, not only binary ones

[xenoterracide]

hmm

[xenoterracide]

task("build", {
    dependsOn(gradle.includedBuild("is").task(":build"))
    dependsOn(gradle.includedBuild("sec").task(":build"))
})

so I have that in my build.gradle.kts

[xenoterracide]

and when I have that but a clone hasn't been done

[xenoterracide]

the gitClone is still blowing up

[xenoterracide]

I'm trying to get all of the "sub projects suites" to be run

[xenoterracide]

is there a better way than also protecting it with a conditional?