Automatically create a developmentOnly configuration for use with DevTools #16599
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status: noteworthy
A noteworthy issue to call out in the release notes
type: enhancement
A general enhancement
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Following on from #14451, we could update the Gradle plugin to automatically create the
developmentOnly
configuration. This would remove the need for a user to define the custom configuration and adding DevTools in the recommended manner would become a one-line addition to thedependencies
block:Automatically creating the configuration would also mean that we'd know its name. This would hopefully allow us to exclude its dependencies from the classpath of the default
BootJar
andBootWar
tasks, allowing us to deprecate theexcludeDevtools
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