Hi Zoltan, > For example I use NetBeans, and things just work with maven. Have you tried intellij? It works fine with Gradle. And it is free.
> Gradle will add friction to contributors familiar with maven and unfamiliar > with gradle... Your case is far better than mine, at least you have knowledge of maven. I have near 0 knowledge for both maven and gradle. But that doesn't prevent me from making contribution to Calcite. The only command I run daily is ./gradlew build. And I am happy with it. :) So don't worry about that. Feel free to ask if you need help, I think Vladimir and other community members are more than happy to help. Thanks, Haisheng On 2020/06/15 23:27:21, Zoltan Farkas <[email protected]> wrote: > Vladimir, > > A new user will probably be impacted more by the IDE experience. > > Some IDEs do better at handling maven than gradle... For example I use > NetBeans, and things just work with maven. > > In my experience, Maven is simply a more mature tool (use it since 2002), > more plugins, good IDE support, with more developers being fluent with it. > > Gradle will add friction to contributors familiar with maven and unfamiliar > with gradle... > > Hope it’s worth it... > > --z > > > On Jun 15, 2020, at 2:49 PM, Vladimir Sitnikov > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > >> Gradle is not that user friendly for new uses > > > > Can you please elaborate? > > > > Gradle's command line is easier to follow as it provides help with the > > usable tasks and descriptions, > > and it requires much less ceremony. > > For instance, with Maven I often had issues like "ExtenderSqlParserImpl not > > found" (== I had to build the project before importing to the IDE), > > and Gradle fixes that. > > > > Vladimir > >
