Grails 6.2.2: Consolidate Gradle Plugin config to one location

[jamesfredley]

Currently in 3 locations, buildSrc/build.gradle, settings.gradle and build.gradle.

[matrei]

@jamesfredley Are we ready to close this issue as not planned, as it was moved to the Grails 7 board?

[codeconsole]

@matrei I've been thinking about this one more and I really think we should push this into Grails 6.2.2

It's a very simple change and we are only talking about modifying forgecreate-app
This requires no changes other than to forge.

The reason for this change is that it seems that most Grails users are on 5.x or less. If we are not going to support 5.x and force them to upgrade to 6.x prior to the release of 7.x, it is going to upset a lot of people and make the 7.x upgrade more difficult for them.

[codeconsole]

This is a very simple task.

All that needs to be done is delete buildSrc/build.gradle, settings.gradle and stick this to the top of build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core/" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:6.2.1"
    }
}

plugins {
    id "groovy"
    id "com.github.erdi.webdriver-binaries" version "3.2"
    id "war"
    id "idea"
    id "com.bertramlabs.asset-pipeline" version "4.5.1"
    id "application"
    id "eclipse"
}
apply plugin:"org.grails.grails-web"
apply plugin:"org.grails.grails-gsp"

[matrei]

The reason for this change is that it seems that most Grails users are on 5.x or less. If we are not going to support 5.x and force them to upgrade to 6.x prior to the release of 7.x, it is going to upset a lot of people and make the 7.x upgrade more difficult for them.

Is there any reason to go through 6 to get to 7?

[codeconsole]

@jamesfredley said on Thursday he would get it done this week and then we can release 6.2.2

The reason to get it done in 6 is for anyone that upgrades to 6 before 7 is released.

[jamesfredley]

I am going to try to have a PR ready by the end of today and then we can continue the conversation against those code changes.

[jamesfredley]

grails/grails-gradle-plugin#351