This is from a mail from Steve Appling.
The proposal was:
configurations {
newConf extends: compile, transitive: true
// alternatively
newConfUnknown macro: { extends = compile transitive = true }existingConf transitive: true
}The map based syntax does not appear to work - I'm hoping this is just not implemented yet, because it is nice and concise
The more verbose syntax options that works are:
configurations {
newConfUnknown macro: { extendsFrom compile //or extendsFrom = [compile] transitive = true }}
The following, however, does not work
configurations {
newConfUnknown macro: { extendsFrom = compile transitive = true }}
Configuration.setExtendsFrom takes a Set of superConfigs not a single one. This is awkward and most usages will probably have only a single parameter. Perhaps this should work with both a list and a single Configuration as was discussed for flatDir earlier today.
