Hi Phil,
On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Phil Messenger wrote:
Hi,
What's the collective view on a dependency on Ant going forward? At
the
moment a lot of functionality in Gradle is delegated to Ant (eg,
the java
compile task) - is this something that you're comfortable with, or
is the
indention to reduce or remove this dependency in the future?
We want to reduce this internal dependency on Ant and finally remove
it. Right now we have it in the following places:
test execution
test reports
java compile
javadoc
groovy compile
groovydoc
They impose an inflexibility onto us in regard to output and in
behavior (sometimes more and sometimes less). And it is another
dependency. In our effort to modularize Gradle we want to have as
less dependencies as possible for our core functionality.
The biggest problem is the JUnit task. I would like to have a little
test report at the end if tests have failed. And I'm not happy with
the filtering. This task tries to execute everything, even non-test
classes, if they are not explicitly excluded. Hopefully we have time
to rewrite this soon.
- Hans
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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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