Trying to upgrade Gradle to 7.6 improved the checkstyle plugin such that
it appears to have been running in new occasions. That in turn exposed
us to https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/issues/5088. That bug was
fixed in 8.28, which also fixed lots of other bugs. So now we have
better checking and some existing volations needed fixing. Since the
code style fixes generated a lot of noise, this is a pre-fix to reduce
the size of a Gradle upgrade.
I did not upgrade past 8.28 because at some point some other bugs were
introduced, in particular with the Indentation module. I chose the
oldest version that had the particular bug impacting me fixed. Upgrading
to this old-but-newer version still makes it easier to upgrade to a
newer version in the future.
This can avoid creating an additional 736 tasks (previously 502 out of
1591 were not created). That's not all that important as the build time
is essentially the same, but this lets us see the poor behavior of the
protobuf plugin in our own project and increase our understanding of how
to avoid task creation when developing the plugin. Of the tasks still
being created, protobuf is the highest contributor with 165 tasks,
followed by maven-publish with 76 and appengine with 53. The remaining
59 are from our own build, but indirectly caused by maven-publish.
This moves our depedencies into a plain file that can be read and
updated by tooling. While the current tooling is not particularly better
than just using gradle-versions-plugin, it should put us on better
footing. gradle-versions-plugin is actually pretty nice, but will be
incompatible with Gradle 8, so we need to wait a bit to see what the
future holds.
Left libraries as an alias for libs to reduce the commit size and make
it easier to revert if we don't end up liking this approach.
We're using Gradle 7.3.3 where it was an incubating fetaure. But in
Gradle 7.4 is became stable.
grpc-observability was accidentally included in grpc-bom in 1.45 even
though it was not published to Maven Central. This is intended to reduce
the likelihood of such things reoccurring. We only include a project in
the bom if it is using maven-publish and if the publishing task is
enabled.
onlyIf is very similar to enabled, except it is processed just before
the task is run. We need a more static property here, so swap to
enabled. If a project uses onlyIf in the future, grpc-bom won't be able
to automatically exclude it.
Eric Anderson