Publish a BOM

Hey there! Love the project, but I would love it if there was a BOM file that is published for each version. If you’re not familiar with a BOM,it stands for “Bill of Materials” it helps your Gradle (in my case, but it’s originally a Maven thing) file look like this:

implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient-bom:0.6.0")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_common")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_dropwizard")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_servlet")

Instead of this:

val prometheusVersion by extra { "0.6.0" }

implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient:$prometheusVersion")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_common:$prometheusVersion")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_dropwizard:$prometheusVersion")
implementation("io.prometheus:simpleclient_servlet:$prometheusVersion")

Notice how you just leave the versions off when you use a BOM. This can help reduce the number of dependency compatibility surprises one can encounter, especially if a transitive dependency brings in a newer version of one of the components (it’ll be reduced to the BOM’s version).

Here’s a deeper dive into how a BOM works:

https://howtodoinjava.com/maven/maven-bom-bill-of-materials-dependency/

[brian-brazil]

If it can get updated automatically on release, then that sounds good.

[maxmil]

We’d be keen to use this but I don’t think it’s been released yet. This is a +1 for 0.9.1.