Russel Winder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that 0.6 is successfully out of the door, I would like to start a
> campaign to make it really easy for people to write their own plugins
> without having to embed things into the Gradle distribution.
>
>
But you already can. It's really easy. It just needs a little
documentation. The process:
1. implement Plugin
2. bundle the implementation into a jar
3. publish the jar + some dependency meta-info to a repository where
people can find it
4. let people know the plugin exists
If your implementation is in the buildSrc project, or in a build script,
you can skip steps 2-4. Also, steps 2-4 are exactly what you have to do
if you are producing a java library. The only Gradle plugin specific
step is to implement Plugin.
To use a custom plugin
1. add a dependency declaration on the plugin jar in your settings.gradle
2. usePlugin(pluginImplClass)
If your implementation is in the buildSrc project or in a build script,
you can skip step 1. Also, step 1 is exactly what you have to do if you
are using a java library in your build. The only plugin specific step is
to usePlugin().
It really is really easy. Of course, there will be things we can do to
make things a little easier, but it already does work quite well.
Adam
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