Dependency management for Groovy 2.5 is incomplete

[artembilan]

Right now I have to use explicitly a Groovy version in my project for extra Groovy dependencies (e.g. groovy-dateutils, groovy-datetime etc.) where I can't rely on the Spring Boot as parent, but I use its BOM for imports.

It might be the fact that there is just enough to have a groovy-all dependency which is now very close to the BOM structure: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy-all/2.5.2/groovy-all-2.5.2.pom.
With the issue that they don't wrap dependencies into the <dependencyManagement> (🤷‍♂️), so, I'm not sure how to use in Maven. It works well in Gradle though... But that's already a different story and we may just list all the dependencies from there, plus groovy-dateutils, which enhance a Date class with extra format() and parse() methods.

Thanks

[artembilan]

Some external use-case: spring-attic/scriptable-transform#7

[artembilan]

@wilkinsona ,

Thank you for fixing this! Although I see that groovy-jaxb is still missed: https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:groovy-jaxb
Or is that intentional?

[artembilan]

However I see that it is not available for version 3.0: https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.codehaus.groovy

So, maybe it is really fine to look ahead and don't add it into our dependency management.

[wilkinsona]

Oops. No, that wasn't intentional. Thanks for spotting it. I used Bomr's artifacts command and pointed it at 2.5.0. Interestingly, groovy-jaxb is new in 2.5.1. I'll run it again against 2.5.4 and make sure we're fully aligned.