Dependency manage hibernate-gradle-plugin

[candrews]

org.hibernate:hibernate-gradle-plugin is the Hibernate byte code enhancer for Gradle: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.6/topical/html_single/bytecode/BytecodeEnhancement.html

As part of Hibernate, it would be nice if Spring Boot dependency management version managed this dependency like it does for all of the other Hibernate dependencies already.

[wilkinsona]

Thanks for the suggestion, @candrews. Can you explain why you'd like the Gradle plugin to be included in our dependency management? AIUI, it won't allow you to omit the version when configuring a Gradle project to use the plugin.

[candrews]

Can you explain why you'd like the Gradle plugin to be included in our dependency management? AIUI, it won't allow you to omit the version when configuring a Gradle project to use the plugin.

True, but I'm hoping that we (or I) can fix that. I'm hoping that having this version specified in the BOM will be a step towards resolving #22109

[wilkinsona]

Until Gradle offers support for managing plugin versions using a bom, I don't think we should add anything to spring-boot-dependencies. I think it would be confusing for a Gradle plugin to be managed as a standard dependency. Instead, they should be managed separately (as Maven plugins currently are via <pluginManagement>) once that separate mechanism is available. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

[wilkinsona]

I think we could do with with a settings plugin or published versions catalog. I've opened #37836.