Please don't stop now! Many thanks for doing the work. Faster builds will answer for any grumbling/transition pains I expect
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 9:58 AM Gus Heck <gus.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also looking forward to it. :) especially if it speeds things up. Moving > forward with it in 9x and not 8 sounds good to me. There are folks out there > who build themselves custom builds of Solr, so build changes this big seem > like a sort of back compatability concern, though obviously only for a > minority. > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:05 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya > <ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Looking forward to it, and thanks a lot for your effort. Excited! >> >> On Sat, 8 Jun, 2019, 4:29 AM Mark Miller, <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Since I have heard no objection, I've continued working on moving the >>> project from ant+ivy+maven to gradle. >>> >>> At this point I've contributed significant time to this project. I hope >>> everyone has taken the time to consider this change and their possible >>> concerns. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but there is too much effort >>> involved to get caught up at the end. >>> >>> There is still a lot to do, it's not going to happen tomorrow, but many, >>> many things are done. >>> >>> The performance of the build in comparison to what we had will astonish you >>> on good hardware. >>> >>> Even comparing to your experience with the majority of maven builds, this >>> will be *significantly* faster. This is without using the gradle build >>> cache or paying proper attention to task uptodate properties. >>> >>> There are considerable improvements and benefits we can reap from this >>> change, but the sheer speed has made the development experience for me way >>> more enjoyable. >>> >>> My goal is to take us from a very powerful but complicated and slow and >>> clunky and dense build to what is essentially a modern top tier build >>> experience in power, performance, integrity and ease of use. >>> >>> I've made significant progress over the past month or so, but it will >>> likely take me another 2-4 before I plan on having something I'd considered >>> ready for prime time 9x duties. >>> >>> I'll take the time needed to get things right, hopefully everyone else will >>> take the time to help with a transition when that time comes. >>> >>> My hope is that version 9 is the first built with gradle. We can consider >>> it being available on 8 as well, but I don't think it makes sense to >>> release 8x versions with gradle. I think we should only consider the gradle >>> build on 8x as a developer convenience and it would be on the users of it >>> to address keeping it up to date with changes on the ant build as problems >>> arise. Depending on the time, it may not even make sense to put effort here. >>> >>> This weekend I'm wrapping up some work on making our dependency management >>> headache more transparent. I think we can make a lot of improvements on >>> understanding what is in our build and why and what is published or shipped >>> where and why. >>> >>> -- >>> - Mark >>> >>> http://about.me/markrmiller > > > > -- > http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) > http://www.the111shift.com (play) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
