On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:33:27 -0700
> Casey Cain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > At today's DDF Michael and Stephen had a very good discussion
> > regarding tools for evolving ODL.  One of these potential changes is
> > migration to Gradel / Bazel.  This of course is not a simple change.
> > Not only would it significantly affect ODL but other LFN projects as
> > well.  As such, I'm suggesting that ODL appoint a representative to
> > work the LFN community as a whole to investigate the pros, cons, work
> > effort and desire to migrate.
>
> On the topic of Gradle (v. Maven), I came across the following this
> weekend: https://blog.philipphauer.de/moving-back-from-gradle-to-maven/
>
> It makes for interesting reading, even though it *is* just one anecdote
> and not generalisable.
>

There will always be pro and con blog posts for any new tool and
technology... ;-)

Steep learning curve probably with anything new; we're just more used to
Maven's quirks? :)

As to the why at all and is it worth it, for me the main driver really is
performance because of properly working incremental builds, even on Jenkins
for Gerrit.

Re. Groovy instead XML, their idea seems to be Kotlin (as blog mentions);
BUT my PoV is that probably either is wrong - I expect in a big project
like ours one would have custom tasks and plugins (which we can write in
Java...) and should aim to have minimal build scripts which are much more
POM like declarative than imperative after all, just for depenencies and
the like.

Ultimtely we'll have to figure out for ourselves if and when this makes
sense for us, if ever.

Regards,
>
> Stephen
>
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