From 2bd36729c2c1171b4995fbf7e01e94a985e24ce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandra Guironnet <45459065+AlexGuironnetRTE@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:27:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: additional information on gradle-lite (#10640) Signed-off-by: Alexandra Guironnet <alexandra.guironnet@rte-france.com> Co-authored-by: HonkingGoose <34918129+HonkingGoose@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Michael Kriese <michael.kriese@visualon.de> --- lib/manager/gradle-lite/readme.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/manager/gradle-lite/readme.md b/lib/manager/gradle-lite/readme.md index 67f8c78c0f..a8d4be8db2 100644 --- a/lib/manager/gradle-lite/readme.md +++ b/lib/manager/gradle-lite/readme.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ `gradle-lite` is an an alternate manager for Gradle, and is written in JavaScript. -The main benefit of `gradle-lite` is that it doesn't need to invoke the `gradle` tool from and command line in order to extract dependencies. +The main benefit of `gradle-lite` is that it doesn't need to invoke the `gradle` tool from the command line in order to extract the dependencies. To enable `gradle-lite`: @@ -18,3 +18,25 @@ To disable the original `gradle` manager if `gradle-lite` satisfies all requirem ``` Feedback for this manager would be welcome as we would like to switch it to be the default manager for Gradle soon. + +`gradle-lite` supports the following version definition strategies: + +- Version defined as a plain string in a `*.gradle` file, for example: `"org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:2.5.1"` + +- Version defined as a local variable: + + - In `build.gradle`: + + ``` + def springBoot='2.5.1' + ... + "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:$springBoot" + ``` + +- Version defined as a variable in the accompanying `*.properties` file: + - In `gradle.properties`: `springBoot=2.5.1` + - In `build.gradle`: `"org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:$springBoot"` + +Variables defined in other custom locations are not supported. + +See the [Gradle documentation](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:gradle_configuration_properties) for details on defining variables. -- GitLab