Hi Gradle developers,
the underlaying technologie is great - thanks for all the effort,
though I think the usability and ease of understand build scripts
could be better.
Therefore I would love to make some suggestions.
Namespace.
It is very confusing to me when reading other gradle files what is a
user defined variable and what is a variable defined by gradle.
I think it would make a lot of sense to have as less as possible key
words or gradle defined variables. Therefore I suggest to ''prefix" in
a oo style all gradle defined variables.
So instead of having:
group = 'net.sf.katta'
version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
...
I would prefer something like:
project.version = '1.1'
project.group = 'net.sf.katta'
This would give readers more context and naturally better to understand.
Also instead of
usePlugin('java')
sourceCompatibility = 1.5
targetCompatibility = 1.5
I think it would be much better to understand to this kind of syntax:
usePlugin('java')
java.sourceCompatibility = 1.5
java. targetCompatibility = 1.5
That would be a great general pattern for plugins. Adding the plugin
by usePlugin('myPlugin') and than just configuring it by defining
properties by myPlugin.propertyName = value. I think this is much
easier and more natural to understand for an developer.
Look how beautiful a build script could look like: :-D
project.version = '1.1'
project.group = 'net.sf.katta'
usePlugin('java')
java.sourceCompatibility = 1.5
java. targetCompatibility = 1.5
usePlugin('myPlugin')
myPlugin.propertyName = value
Stefan
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