Groovy dependency about ical4j

[benfortuna]

Hi,

No, you don't need Groovy to use the standard calendar parsing/generation
features. The Groovy dependency should only be required for extra
Groovy-specific features such as builder support (and running unit tests).

I'll try to make that clearer for future releases.

Regards,
Ben
On 28 Jul 2015 9:14 am, "husayt" [email protected] wrote:

I was surprised to find out that ical4j library depends on groovy-all.jar,
which makes it very expensive to add. We only use ical4j for simple ical
generation, do we still need to ship groovy-all.jar?

I will appreciate for some clarification for when this library needed and
when can be safely omitted.

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[husayt]

Thanks for reply.
I'm using Ical4j from maven (see below) and that pulls groovy-all library
which is 7Mb. Is there any way to exclude it ?

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mnode.ical4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>ical4j</artifactId>
    <version>${ical4j.version}</version>
</dependency>

Thanks

Best regards,
Huseyn Guliyev

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On 28 July 2015 at 00:18, Ben Fortuna [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

No, you don't need Groovy to use the standard calendar parsing/generation
features. The Groovy dependency should only be required for extra
Groovy-specific features such as builder support (and running unit tests).

I'll try to make that clearer for future releases.

Regards,
Ben
On 28 Jul 2015 9:14 am, "husayt" [email protected] wrote:

I was surprised to find out that ical4j library depends on
groovy-all.jar,
which makes it very expensive to add. We only use ical4j for simple ical
generation, do we still need to ship groovy-all.jar?

I will appreciate for some clarification for when this library needed and
when can be safely omitted.

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#38.

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[benfortuna]

Yes you should be able to use a dependency exclusion:

https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html

e.g:

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.mnode.ical4j</groupId>
 <artifactId>ical4j</artifactId>
 <version>${ical4j.version}</version>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
          <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
 </dependency>

[husayt]

Thank you. this was very useful and appreciated.