register spring-boot gradle plugin at the Gradle plugin portal

[mxab]

Hi,
since gradle 2.1 it be came easier to apply plugins to your build script, it would be nice if spring-boot would be available via the gradle plugin portal

[Endron]

I agree. This would make for a lot nicer build-files. The old (pre 2.1) way of adding not bundled plugins looks terrible.

buildscript {
    dependencies { classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.1.8.RELEASE") }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
apply plugin: 'spring-boot' 

coild be replaced with something like

plugins {
    id "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin" version "1.1.8.RELEASE"
}

[holgerstolzenberg]

Fully agree to that. I´d also like to see the plugin at the portal. Will allow for nicer build files.

[wilkinsona]

Boot's release process relies on Artifactory which we use to publish artifacts to Bintray (to which plugins in the portal need to be published). To be able to automate this publication and have the plugin appear in the portal we need this enhancement to be made to Artifactory.

[wilkinsona]

The Artifactory enhancement is now being tracked under RTFACT-7031 and "will be a part of the next release version which will be out in Q1 2015".

[holgerstolzenberg]

The Artifactory feature was resolved. Any further plans on this one here?

[wilkinsona]

It's targeted at 1.3

[Endron]

👍
Ist there any ETA for 1.3?

[wilkinsona]

Nothing definite yet, but I'd expect it to be around the time of SpringOne2GX (mid-September)

[wilkinsona]

Bintray's no longer involved in the process for publishing Gradle plugins. It's been replaced with a mechanism that uses a separate Gradle plugin to perform the publication. It looks like we won't be able to publish Boot's Gradle plugin to the portal without building the plugin with Gradle. Fun.