What's new in Gradle 5.0

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Post by wendelinsky » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 3:50 PM UTC

Re: What's new in Gradle 5.0

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Post by iamdanfox » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 7:20 PM UTC

This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos for a few weeks now and it made upgrading to Gradle 5.0 a zero manual action upgrade!

Re: What's new in Gradle 5.0

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Post by vorg » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 11:31 PM UTC

iamdanfox wrote: post #2

This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos for a few weeks now and it made upgrading to Gradle 5.0 a zero manual action upgrade!

Backcompat is important, but even better is using the new features Gradle 5.0 ships with, e.g. the production-ready Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0 which you can convert to (from Apache Groovy) if you want code completion, error highlighting, and simple refactoring when you write your build DSL's.

See https://guides.gradle.org/migrating-build-logic-from-groovy-...