Hi, I wrote a relatively trivial plugin to load a local.gradle file to customise certain aspects of the build without too much tamtam in the build.gradle file. Although, it's really a trivial plugin it shows how nicely the Groovy DSL works with gradle. Feedback appreciated.
The source can be found on bitbucket: http://bit.ly/etlT0X Here more details: ## Motivation One has to specify the repositories where gradle looks for dependencies in the `build.gradle`. However who says, that these repositories are always the same? For example in my work place there is some local repository proxy to be used. Now if I add it to the repositories, I can't compile the project somewhere else. Therefor I wrote this little plugin: it checks whether some `local.gradle` file exists and loads it. This file might contain any customisations. Especially for my use case I added repository helpers: `defaultRepositories` and `localRepositories`. ## Usage Load the plugin: apply plugin: "local-dotgradle" Then basically nothing happens. You can use your `build.gradle` as before. However if you create a file `local.gradle`, it will be loaded also. Ideally this file is not contained in the source code repository, but only added locally when there is a need for it. To expand the example a little bit we will add some repositories. apply plugin: "local-dotgradle" defaultRepositories { mavenCentral() } Without a `local.gradle` the build will just use maven central as desired. However if we create the following `local.gradle` the build automatically switches to the proxy definitions. localRepositories { mavenRepo urls: 'http://my.local.company/repository/proxy' } Sincerely Meikel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
