Is it possible to write gradle scripts without the buildScript header? about mailmerger

[pabman]

If you want to omit the buildscript then the only alternative I can think of is to run the mailmerger-cmdline as an actual command, rather than bringing it in as a dependency.

I've pushed up a branch https://github.com/distributev/mailmerger/tree/alternative

See the build.gradle in the watch2 folder for an example of what I mean.

[distributev]

Hello,
I tried to look at watch2 but I still see buildScript at the top. In any case I'm interested to tell me couple of examples for scripts types where buildScript section is mandatory and another set of example scripts where just by watching at the script content nothing related with "build" will be visible. I don't need you to write code only to tell me here when buildScript section is mandatory and when we can code gradle scripts without "build" assumptions.

[pabman]

Sorry, I'd not committed the changes to the branch. Should be there now.

https://github.com/distributev/mailmerger/blob/alternative/watch2/build.gradle

[pabman]

The buildscript section of a Gradle build.gradle file defines any dependencies required for Gradle to execute the build.
e.g. in https://github.com/distributev/mailmerger/blob/alternative/watch/build.gradle the mailmerger-cmdline dependency is required to use the MailMerger class directly in the buildscript.

In https://github.com/distributev/mailmerger/blob/alternative/watch2/build.gradle this dependency is not required as the location of the jar file is specified as a parameter to the build and runs a java -jar command via exec.

[distributev]

Please merge watch2 into the main branch. This is how I need - the server should only "wrap functionality" while being as independent as possible from the functionality which is being "wrapped" or deployed into the server.

[pabman]

watch2 has been merged into the main branch and become the main watch folder.