Setting up an images seems ideal to me to get going with less steps. On Friday, October 17, 2014 3:04:05 PM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 17, 2014 5:11:10 PM UTC+2, Rene Hangstrup Møller wrote: >> >> I am just going to repeat my reply from google+ here: >> >> If you want to encourage contributions from the community, you should >> work on lowering the barriers to entry. Pick standard tools that work on a >> variety of platforms. >> >> What went wrong with the conversion to gradle? >> > > Nothing went "wrong", but handling external dependencies still requires > that you "svn co" and "svn up" the gwt-tools repo, and Gradle will most > likely impact how we'd later modularize GWT (not necessarily a bad thing, > but something to be aware of). > I'll make a comparison matrix of Gradle vs. Buck vs. Pants when I find > time. > > >> Why do you need some obscure build system where first sentence on the >> install page is "As of September 2014, alas, Pants is not something you can >> just install and use." >> > > It also says that “Once it’s set up, most folks should be able to use the > Pants > Conceptual Overview <https://pantsbuild.github.io/first_concepts.html> > and not worry about these things.”, i.e. “pants goal idea” or “pants goal > eclipse” to setup your IDE, “pants goal jar” and “pants goal test” for > everyday use, “pants goal publish” or “pants goal bundle” to build GWT in > order to use it in your projects (deploy it in a Maven repo, or create a > ZIP with all needed JARs) > Note: I haven't tried Pants yet, so this is all from the docs. > Existing repositories seem to have a bunch of scripts in them so you can > just “git clone” and run “./pants” and Pants will download itself, just > like Gradle with ./gradlew. And BUILD files are easy to read and > self-explanatory. >
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