Another good thing in gradle is its incremental build support. - Romain
2011/12/20 Pid <p...@pidster.com> > On 20/12/2011 08:38, Antonio Petrelli wrote: > > 2011/12/19 Pid <p...@pidster.com> > > > >> On 18/12/2011 08:37, Mladen Turk wrote: > >>> On 12/17/2011 09:24 PM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: > >>>> As requested here is a proposal to move to Maven. > >>>> > >>> > >>> I simply cannot understand why some folks have > >>> almost religious fascination with Maven. > >>> > >>> I know many projects that have move from Ant to > >>> Maven and are now either switched back or gone to > >>> some other solution like Gradle or are in the > >>> active process of seeking the alternative. > >> > >> I was wondering if someone would mention Gradle. If there's a build > >> tool shootout to be had, Gradle should get fair consideration. > >> > > > > I tried Gradle some time ago and, IMHO, it is pretty slow compared to > Maven > > 3. > > Gradle are releasing frequently, it would be worth trying again. > > > > Moreover, m2eclipse and Maven have some developers in common and are > doing > > a great work to integrate the various plugins. The Eclipse-Gradle plugin > > seems not much mature IMHO. > > Have you tried that recently? It has been working OK for me - but then > I prefer to do the build stuff from the CLI anyway. > > > > However, point in the right direction if I missed something :-) > > Plenty of new things to read in the changelog. > > A notable feature of Gradle is that it does not require the build tool > to be pre-installed, it provides a wrapper mechanism that downloads the > specified version of the tool when it runs. > > I think that the syntax of the Gradle DSL is easier to understand than > Maven (certainly for new users) and it happily integrates with various > of the popular repos and other build tool plugins. > > Seems like the best of both worlds to me. > > > p > > > -- > > [key:62590808] > >
