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Discussion on: Better dependency management in Android Studio 3.5 with Gradle buildSrcVersions

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David Burström

Cool trick! I think it's good to know that when you update a version, this will change the classpath generated by buildSrc which will cause most if not all main build tasks to re-execute. This can be highly counter-productive in larger projects.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Which is one of the reason why I just released another solution based on generating dependencies and plug-in versions inside gradle.properties
Have a look here
github.com/jmfayard/buildSrcVersio...