We are delighted to announce Gradle 0.2.
There is now also a roadmap available: http://gradle.org/roadmap.html
Gradle 0.2 contains many fixes and improvements and is as breaking as
it gets ;):
- gradlefile and gradlesettings are now build.gradle and settings.gradle
- The notation for artifact dependencies has changed from:
"junit:junit-4.4:jar" to "junit:[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This was necessary
because of the introduction of classifiers (e.g. "org.testng:testng:
5.7:[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
- There is no 1-string argument method any longer for adding archive
tasks to a bundle: dists { zip('myzip') } is now: dists { zip
(baseName: 'myzip') }
The most important improvements:
- The archive support has been improved a lot:
-- Merge functionality (UG 9.8.3)
-- Introduction of classifiers (e.g. gradle-0.2-bin.zip) (UG 9.8.1)
-- Better default archive handling. There is no type property needed
any longer. (UG 9.7.1 and 11)
-- The documentation has also improved.
- Better support for Maven repositories. We have now for example good
support for the use case that the pom is in a different repository
than the jar (UG 12.5.2).
- The compile task has now include/exclude methods for the class
files directory.
- You can set system properties via gradle.properties files. (UG 4.4)
- Support for web proxies. (UG 4.5)
- To skip a task it is now sufficient to just set the property (e.g. -
Dskip.test) instead of setting it to true (e.g. -Dskip.test=true).
Either not setting it or setting it to false does not skip a task.
(UG 4.1)
- Tasks can be now disabled/enabled via an enabled property (UG 4.1).
- Gradle is now bundled with ant-nodeps, thus many optional tasks
work out of the box.
Cheers,
- Hans
Release Notes - Gradle - Version 0.2
** Bug
* [GRADLE-57] - The gradle.bat has *nix line separators when
build on *nix.
* [GRADLE-60] - Not all linenumbers are read from the stacktrace
in case of an GradleScriptException
* [GRADLE-88] - Adding to the manifest within an archive adds
also to the base manifest used by all archives.
* [GRADLE-90] - usePlugin(Class) is missing from
org.grade.api.Project
* [GRADLE-93] - The gradle default cache (.gradle/cache) is not
always used for downloading dependencies. Sometimes .ivy2/cache is used.
* [GRADLE-94] - An artifact dependency is not recognized if the
user description is of type GString.
* [GRADLE-109] - Resolve from flatDirResolver takes very long if
there are other remote resolvers in the chain.
** Improvement
* [GRADLE-31] - Split the tutorial creator into single files
* [GRADLE-36] - Add additional modifier for archive names (e.g.
src)
* [GRADLE-59] - Allow classifiers to be added to a dependency
notation (e.g. testng-5.8-jdk14)
* [GRADLE-62] - Move website from gradle-core trunk to an own
top level folder in svn
* [GRADLE-72] - report the actual JRE version (1.6.0_5) , not
the version of the hotspot VM. (10.0)
* [GRADLE-83] - Split the distribution into a pure binary and
binary+src+samples.
* [GRADLE-89] - Compile task should offer includes/excludes
functionality for the files in the srcDirs
* [GRADLE-91] - Allow to add URL's to the MavenRepo resolver for
retrieving jars.
* [GRADLE-95] - Allow string descriptions of paths for
DependencyManager.addFlatDirResolver arguments.
* [GRADLE-98] - Bundle Gradle with ant-nodeps
* [GRADLE-101] - Setting a skip property is enough to skip the
task. Only setting it to false or not setting it does not skip a task.
* [GRADLE-102] - Add debug timing information to log
* [GRADLE-103] - Improve default archive usability by not using
late creation via type and by introducing a war plugin.
* [GRADLE-104] - Use only one convention object which can be
dynamically enhanced by any plugin and which preserves a plugin
namespace.
* [GRADLE-105] - Add disable/enable flag to task
* [GRADLE-107] - Add an optional parameter to the usePlugin
method, to overwrite default values of the plugin convention object
before the plugin manipulates the project.
* [GRADLE-110] - Make gradle properties conveniently accessible
to settings.gradle
* [GRADLE-111] - Make the internal chain resolver properties
configurable
* [GRADLE-113] - Rename gradlefile to build.gradle and
gradlesettings to settings.gradle
* [GRADLE-115] - Make userguide generation independent of the
execution of the integration tests (rely on the expected out files
only).
** New Feature
* [GRADLE-96] - Add merge functionality for archives
* [GRADLE-99] - Provide build-in Proxy support (also via gradle
user home properties)
* [GRADLE-100] - Set a default for the bundle childrenDependsOn
property
* [GRADLE-108] - Set system props via the gradle.properties files
--
Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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