How Grails plugin hard depenencies work?

Question

I found plugin that has dependencies defined in BuildConfig.groovy and same dependencies duplicated in plugin manifest like this:

def dependsOn = [foo: "* > 1.0"]

Are this definitions same?

Answer 1

dependsOn shouldn't be used in 2.0 and higher. We no longer use that setting - dependencies are specified in BuildConfig.groovy and those are used to generate a POM file when releasing the plugin. The POM is used when installing the plugin to determine jar and plugin dependencies.