Creating a Gradle plugin with a dependency on another (external) plugin
gradle
Solution
The way to go about this is to publish a pom.xml or ivy.xml along with the plugin Jar that describes the plugin's dependencies. Alternatively, you can write a script plugin that declares its dependencies in a `buildscript {}` section. A script plugin is simply a reusable build script that gets applied with `apply from: ...`.
Problem
I want to create a plugin that automatically applies other (external plugins). This requires setting the buildscript dependency for the plugin before I call "apply plugin". However it seems like I can't add buildscript dependencies in a plugin or I get: You can't change a configuration which is not in unresolved state! Is there a solution to this ? My sample (non-working) code: ``` import org.gradle.api.Project import org.gradle.api.Plugin class SamplePlugin implements Plugin<Project>{ void apply(Project project) { project.buildscript.dependencies.add("classpath","net.sourceforge.cobertura:cobertura:1.9.4.1"); project.configure(project){ apply plugin: 'cobertura' } } } ```