From 729205059e954e5ccacd4855922e338b9899a0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cedric Beust <cedric@beust.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:49:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] More plug-in doc.

---
 plug-in-development/index.html | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plug-in-development/index.html b/plug-in-development/index.html
index acaf433..3c632d0 100644
--- a/plug-in-development/index.html
+++ b/plug-in-development/index.html
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ If you are curious to get a quick feel for what a Kobalt plug-in looks like, I s
 and keep reading.
 </p>
 <h2 class="section" id="idea-set-up">Setting up IDEA</h2>
+    <h3 class="section" indent="1" id="launch-configuration">Launch configuration</h3>
 <p>
     The simplest way to run your plug-in in your IDE is to create a main function in the main class of your
     plug-in as follows:
@@ -91,6 +92,26 @@ val p = project {
     with your plug-in. You can set a breakpoint in one of your tasks or anywhere that gets invoked. Don't forget
     to invoke this launch configuration with the regular parameters passed to Kobalt (e.g. <code>"assemble"</code>).
 </p>
+    <h3 class="section" indent="1" id="local-dependencies">Local dependencies</h3>
+    <p>
+        In the process of building your plug-in, you will probably be invoking it from test projects and since
+        you will be making changes to your plug-in and generating jar files often, you might find it more convenient
+        to have these test projects point to your local jar file instead of the Maven one (which would require you
+        to upload your plug-in all the time). For this, you might find the <code>file()</code> and <code>homeDir
+        ()</code> directives convenient:
+    </p>
+<pre class="brush:java">
+    // Regular dependency
+    compile("com.example:myPlugin:0.1")
+
+    // Development dependency
+    compile(file(homeDir("kotlin/myPlugin/kobaltBuild/libs/myPlugin-0.1.jar"))
+</pre>
+    <p>
+        With this latter configuration, simply build your plug-in to generate the jar file with <code>./kobaltw
+        assemble</code>, switch to your test project and invoke Kobalt on it so that your plug-in will get invoked
+        and you should see the latest version of your code being invoked.
+    </p>
 <h2 class="section" id="philosophy">Plug-in architecture</h3>
 <p>
 <p>