On 17/01/2013, at 6:41 PM, Hans Dockter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 17/01/2013, at 3:45 AM, Luke Daley wrote: > >> >> >> On 16/01/2013, at 6:06, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> To better support building Android apps (and other things), we want to >>> rework the jvm language plugins so that they can handle building multiple >>> outputs from a given set of source files. >>> >>> I've made a bit of a start on a spec here, but's pretty rough: >>> https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/design-docs/building-multiple-outputs-from-jvm-languages.md >>> >>> I need some suggestions for terminology: >>> >>> 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. >> >> I don't fully understand the scope of what this thing is. >> >> Is it anything that can be produced during a build? Or is it something that >> is produced as a kind of primary goal? > > The scope is pretty broad: Pretty much any thing that can be used during a > build. This includes the things that are produced as a primary output and the > things that are intermediate. It also include the things consumed by a build. > > Just to be sure. You definition is: set of build items = build inputs + built > outputs ?
Not entirely. They're just things. Some of them will be used as inputs, and some will be used as outputs, and some will be used as both. And some will be used as neither (but we don't care about those because if they're not involved in a build at some point, they're not interesting to us). -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
