+1 for moving to gradle. I'm happy to help. On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:25 AM Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1. Gradle is the alpha and the omega of build systems. I will help. > > - Mark > > On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:13 PM Đạt Cao Mạnh <caomanhdat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Recently, I had a chance of working on modifying different build.xml of >> our project. To be honest that was a painful experience, especially the >> number of steps for adding a new module in our project. We reach the >> limitation point of Ant and moving to Gradle seems a good option since it >> has been widely used in many projects. There are several benefits of the >> moving here that I would like to mention >> * The capability of caching result in Gradle make running task much >> faster. I.e: rerunning forbiddenApi check in Gradle only takes 5 seconds >> (comparing to more than a minute of Ant). >> * Adding modules is much easier now. >> * Adding dependencies is a pleasure now since we don't have to run ant >> clean-idea and ant idea all over again. >> * Natively supported by different IDEs. >> >> On my very boring long flight from Montreal back to Vietnam, I tried to >> convert the Lucene/Solr Ant to Gradle, I finally achieved something here by >> being able to import project and run tests natively from IntelliJ IDEA >> (branch jira/gradle). >> >> I'm converting ant precommit for Lucene to Gradle. But there are a lot of >> things need to be done here and my limitation understanding in our Ant >> build and Gradle may make the work take a lot of time to finish. >> >> Therefore, I really need help from the community to finish the work and >> we will be able to move to a totally new, modern, powerful build tool. >> >> Thanks! >> >> > > -- > - Mark > > http://about.me/markrmiller > -- Best regards, Vladimir Kroz www.linkedin.com/in/*vkroz* <http://www.linkedin.com/in/vkroz> Phone: (707) 515-9195
