On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 16:51 +0200, Hans Dockter wrote:
On Sep 9, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
[ . . . ]
It is just that Waf, and to a lesser extent SCons, have the great
ability to ship a complete build system as a single 80kb file
dependent
only on a Python installation. The trick used is to ship a Python
script that contains a compressed form of the system -- if it needs
extracting it does so. The extracted system can be deleted.
That would be wonderful to have. But Scons can assume Python to be
installed. Gradle only assumes Java to be installed.
You may not have intended this, but the above is actually a great
argument for saying that Python is a much better language for writing
build frameworks than Java!
We all know that Java is not the ultima ratio of languages. But we are
convinced that a Java core is the best choice for a JVM build system
with a focus on Java projects. And I'm sure many of our users wouldn't
be happy if they are asked to install Python before they can use
Gradle. The existence of a JDK is the only thing that we can safely
assume to exist for people interested in Gradle.
- Hans
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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project Manager
http://www.gradle.org
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