[GRADLE-2340] API consistency - dependencies expressed with 'group' and 'name', excludes with 'group' and 'module' Created: 08/Jun/12  Updated: 10/Feb/17  Resolved: 10/Feb/17

Status: Resolved
Project: Gradle
Affects Version/s: 1.0-rc-3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Improvement
Reporter: wujek srujek Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0


 Description   

Hi. Take a look at the following snippet:

configurations

{ testCompile.exclude group: 'junit', module: 'junit' }

dependencies

{ groovy group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', name: 'groovy', version: '1.8.6' testCompile group: 'org.testng', name: 'testng', version: '6.5.2' testCompile group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core', version: '1.9.0' }

The API is inconsistent: deps use 'group' and 'name' attributes, but excludes use 'group' and 'module'. This is a cause of build bugs that are not that require the user to go and google and dig in the API doc to find the right syntax, whereas it could be made consistent and what users expect.

wujek

 Comments   
Comment by wujek srujek [ 15/Jun/13 ]

Hi. It's been a year without even a comment. Any thoughts on the API inconsistency? Or is it by design? Would love to know.

Comment by wujek srujek [ 15/Jun/13 ]

Is anybody getting any updates to this bug? There is no assignee and no other watchers as me, so maybe nobody even noticed this ticket?

Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 15/Nov/16 ]

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Comment by Benjamin Muschko [ 10/Feb/17 ]

Thanks again for reporting this issue. We haven't heard back from you after our inquiry from November 15th. We are closing this issue now. Please create an issue on GitHub if you still feel passionate about getting it resolved.

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