[[incremental_task_inputs_deprecation]]
=== IncrementalTaskInputs type is deprecated

The `IncrementalTaskInputs` type was used to implement _incremental tasks,_ that is to say tasks that can be optimized to run on a subset of changed inputs instead of the whole input.
This type had a number of drawbacks.
In particular using this type it was not possible to determine what input a change was associated with.

- `getFiles(Spec)`
- `getArtifacts(Spec)`

To mitigate this deprecation, consider the example below that leverages the `ArtifactView`
API along with the `componentFilter` method to select a subset of a Configuration's artifacts:

====
[.multi-language-sample]
=====
.build.gradle.kts
[source,kotlin]
----
val conf by configurations.creating

dependencies {
    conf("com.thing:foo:1.0")

// THE SOFTWARE.

// ArchSyms holds a number of architecture specific symbols used during
// relocation.  Rather than allowing them universal access to all symbols,
// we keep a subset for relocation application.
type ArchSyms struct {
	Rel     loader.Sym
	Rela    loader.Sym
	RelPLT  loader.Sym
	RelaPLT loader.Sym

	LinkEditGOT loader.Sym
	LinkEditPLT loader.Sym

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