Dawid, I think the plan is good, and thanks for working on it.

Maybe the README should be altered a little bit to encourage people to mess
around with the gradle build. Currently all the instructions in the root
README are ant-based. I am thinking just a simple one-liner that explains
it: gradle is WIP, patches welcome, whatever you want it to say.




On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:44 PM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:

> > So are we going to be able to do things like EA testing?
>
> We should be able to, eventually. For now I explicitly limited the
> environment to a particular Java/ Gradle version so that
> we're all on the same page... Gradle is a much more complicated (and
> fragile) ecosystem than ant. Weird things (like the one you
> experienced, argh!) can happen out of nowhere.
>
> Perhaps I should also clarify: the ant build will still work (on
> master) until we can iron out all the problems. I just don't want to
> keep the branch separate anymore. One of the reasons for this is
> simple: I've had more feedback in the last 5 minutes than I had in the
> last three weeks. :) I am also afraid the whole effort will die if
> there is only one person effectively using it -- this is what happened
> with Mark's branch. I tried to bring it to a functional level and I
> think it's there -- I've been working with it for over a month now.
>
> Dawid
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