Include native gen with plugin

[mperry]

Currently needs explicit native gen library in client project

[Dierk]

I'd say that an explicit dependency is not so bad

• keeps native-gen optional with smaller download size if not needed
• avoid version conflict in the transitive dependencies
  (Same for repl)
  This has to be weighed against convenience of course. I'm not sure what is best.

[mperry]

I think to help people get started it would be better to include everything by default. They can then override or exclude what they wish.

The problem is the tasks are defined in the plugin, but running the tasks will fail without the extra explicit dependencies. Not a pleasant suprise!

Version conflict is something that has to be watched of course, but as a user I want the primary library authors to sort that out. I don't want to have to do this with every library I consume.

[Dierk]

Agreed.

We should explain in the docs how to opt out.

Cheers
Dierk

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Am 17.09.2015 um 07:16 schrieb Mark Perry [email protected]:

I think to help people get started it would be better to include everything by default. They can then override or exclude what they wish.

The problem is the tasks are defined in the plugin, but running the tasks will fail without the extra explicit dependencies. Not a pleasant suprise!

Version conflict is something that has to be watched of course, but as a user I want the primary library authors to sort that out. I don't want to have to do this with every library I consume.

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[mperry]

This is my argument for including the frege artifact with the plugin too, but I remember a few people wanted that explicit. Not sure what other language plugins do by default, I have always made explicit reference to versions for Groovy and Scala in the dependencies, so I am guessing the primary language artifact is not included with the plugin.

[Dierk]

For the compiler/runtime it is often so that one wants to change/upgrade to a version different than the "bundled" one. Change should be simple and obvious.

Dierk

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Am 17.09.2015 um 07:34 schrieb Mark Perry [email protected]:

This is my argument for including the frege artifact with the plugin too, but I remember a few people wanted that explicit. Not sure what other language plugins do by default, I have always made explicit reference to versions for Groovy and Scala in the dependencies, so I am guessing the primary language artifact is not included with the plugin.

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