How to add new dependencies?

Context: buildSrcVersions is a Gradle plugin that makes it easier to manage your dependencies inside your IDE. It extracts all your dependencies and search for available dependencies updates.

The description shows how to bootstrap the switch and how to update to new dependencies. However, I can’t see how to add a new dependency. Looks to me that Libs.kt is not meant to be manually edited. So is the idea to add an “old-fashioned” dependency, and then run syncLibs to create a new Libs.kt, and then replace the dependency literal? That feels convoluted. Is there a better way? Perhaps a registerDependency task that takes a dependency string and adds it to Libs.kt and Versions.kt?

[jmfayard]

@nkiesel

However, I can’t see how to add a new dependency. Looks to me that Libs.kt is not meant to be manually edited. That feels convoluted. I

That’s correct.

Is there a better way?

I would suggest to use the IDE plugin OK, Gradle! from @scana that solves the adding dependency problem brillantly.

Currently, you would still have to run ./gradlew syncTasks and replace the strings with Libs.whateverafter. Ideally, I would like to integrate the IDE plugin with my gradle plugin.

Related: https://github.com/scana/ok-gradle/issues/14

[jmfayard]

@nkiesel there are finally news on this topic. You can do $ ./gradlew :buildSrcVersions --update or $ ./gradlew refreshVersions --update . It will upgrade to the newer versions and you can fix what you don’t want by looking at the git diff. This will makes it permanent

buildSrcVersions {
    alwaysUpdateVersions()
}

https://github.com/jmfayard/buildSrcVersions/issues/53