FWIW, I’ve done a first commit at https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/commit/de3b11c575720c34c32a9f16fe84e9e0b491e108
I’m still unsure whether we should do this in master or not. One issue is going to be the maintenance of dependencies between the Maven build and the Gradle build. Thus I think it might be better to move the gradle stuff into a branch and perform a move/rewrite the day we’re ready to switch. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent PS: If you’re curious here are some typical Gradle builds: * https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/build.gradle * https://github.com/mockito/mockito/blob/release/2.x/build.gradle * https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/master/build.gradle * https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/master/build.gradle > On 10 Apr 2017, at 21:31, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW I think we’ll need to think about exploring gradle in not too long. > > Maven continues to stagnate while gradle is moving fast ahead. > > One important feature of gradle is performance (see also > https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-gradle-build-cache and > https://blog.gradle.org/incremental-compiler-avoidance). Apparently it beats > maven easily and that coud make things much nicer for us. The worrying point > for me is the ability to find existing gradle plugins to replace the maven > ones that we use. > > What we could do is to commit the start of a gradle build in our SCM > (starting with xwiki-commons) as a way to explore Gradle and see what’s > missing compared to our current maven build. In other words, it would be a > way to slowly start to learn Gradle. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS1: FTR I did my first gradle build at > https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle > PS2: I’m worried about the smaller reliance on conventions in gradle than in > Maven (as you can see from > https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle, it > doesn’t use any fixed structure and we’ll need plenty of best practices, it > really reminds me of Ant…).
