💾 Archived View for gemini.bortzmeyer.org › fosdem › event-11664.gmi captured on 2022-04-29 at 01:21:43. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

FOSDEM event "The future of dependency management, seen from 2021"

LouisCAD

Type devroom

Starts on day 2 (2021-02-07) at 10:40 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Kotlin (duration 00:30)

Matrix room #kotlin:fosdem.org

Dependency management in the Kotlin and in the JVM ecosystems is great, especially for Gradle users, but there's room for improvement.

Some tasks, like upgrading dependencies to the right versions, are still tedious and time consuming. There's also compatibility gotchas because of the lack of metadata.

This talk will start with a mention of the different problems that come with dependency management in real-world projects.

Then it'll show how the developer tool

Finally, I'll talk about what the future can be for dependency management, be it from new features in future Gradle versions, or tools or conventions that the community can create to improve the status quo.

FOSDEM schedule page