On 16/01/2013, at 4:19 PM, Szczepan Faber <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 1. A term for the things that Gradle builds. With this work, plus
>> publications, components, reports and distributions work that is happening,
>> we're starting to model more of the things that Gradle can build. It feels
>> like we should have a term for this. So far we've been calling these things
>> 'things' and sometimes 'outputs'. I kind of like the term 'build item' from
>> abuild.
> 
> In the tooling api we've started calling those things 'build
> outcomes'. Though, not sure how much they fit.

The intention is that that's not quite the same thing, but close.

A build outcome can be an auxiliary thing (e.g. a test report), or could even 
potentially be something functional (e.g. how many deprecation warnings). This 
concept was added to support the build comparison stuff.

> 
> I don't love 'build item' because to me it does not say that it's a
> product of build (e.g. in my head it links with a thing to be built).
> I don't have anything better so if 'build item' works for everyone
> then it works.
> 
>> 4. A term for a logical set of source. Currently we call these a 'source
>> set'. The spec calls these things a 'functional source set'.
> 
> Current name does not bother me (but maybe I simply got used to it :)
> - why do we want to change it?
> 
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Szczepan Faber
> Principal engineer@gradleware
> Lead@mockito
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