On 13/07/2011, at 3:42 PM, Russel Winder wrote: >> We don't exactly know how far Gradle is going to go in supporting >> portability like autotools. > > To be honest if Gradle is going to get into the C, C++, Fortran, D, Go, > LaTeX build arena then portability has to be a primary requirement.
I'd say that's not necessarily true. Don't get me wrong, it would be great to have. This is a *big* problem to solve and many engineering years have gone into tools before Gradle to try and solve this. We need to be smart to avoid wheel reinvention unless it's a suitably better wheel. And as far as “primary”, that would imply that we shouldn't ship anything without a portability solution which I don't think is correct. -- Luke Daley Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://gradleware.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
