On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I prefer source over src. The problem with source is that it clashes with
> the source property on project. You'd have to do something like
>
> compileJava {
> source project.source.main.java
> }
>
> But then, given that the above is the default, maybe we don't care.
>
>
> Adam
>
>
I don't mind if the default is a bit confusing, so I would go with source
without a better reason. However, another possibility is to name the
property on project 'sourceset'. This matches the name of the concept in
the docs, and reads fine as well.
compileJava {
source project.sourceset.main.java
}
Every time I read project.source, I have to mentally translate it to "the
project's source set". If you rename this, then source as the name of the
method is not really confusing. The above means that to compile java it
should use the source located in my project's main source set. The .java
ending is noise, however, as I already said compileJava. Could we do away
with that? Maybe the compileJava task could know that it needs java source?
--
John Murph
Automated Logic Research Team
