Why do we need repositories/dependencies in buildscript task for gradle

Question

In the post Using gradle/clojuresq to build clojure, and the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/29018574/260127, there are (or seems) duplication of repositories and dependencies.

Why is this? Why do we need another set with the same setup?

buildscript { <- first 
    repositories { 
        maven { url "http://clojars.org/repo" } 
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "clojuresque:clojuresque:1.7.0" 
    }
}

...

-> Same set again!

repositories {
    maven { url "http://clojars.org/repo" }
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile "org.clojure:clojure:1.6.0"
}

...

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '15 at 03:20

The first is a dependency required for the build script itself. The dependency you are declaring in this case is clojuresque, which contains the Clojure Gradle plugin (apply plugin: 'clojure'). The second is the dependencies for you project, in this case, the Clojure library itself.

Simply, the first is needed by Gradle, the second by your code.

Why do we need repositories/dependencies in buildscript task for gradle

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