Hi everyone, I've been watching an reflecting upon the gwt meetup you had few weeks ago. And one of my concern is about a decent build system that gwt should be based upon. As for now, Bazel is not ready for Windows, and also it needs to be installed, configured and so on, which can be cumbersome and repulsive.
So i came up with an idea, i'm sure you did have it already but in any case, i will submit it here : First, there a fact : GWT is moving towards the Web ecosystem, by being much easily and naturally integrated with the javascript world (and more to the point : ES6). This means that web projects will be mixes of javascript, java code, colsure, clojure, coffee and so on. So to follow this philosophy, i propose not to go to the Bazel direction but more to the Web direction which would mean using a build system like "gulp" or "grunt". Did you examine such build tools when you reviewed decent ones ? And i've been trying "gulp" for a few weeks now, and i can tell : - it's very *fast* - it's *task based* (a bit like bazel), so conceptually it fits with the GWT requirements, - it can *watch files* for changes out-of-the-box - it is *modular*, and not a "framework", more a set of available "tools to build things". - it is able to launch any process, so of course it *can launch javac* - it is a *standard *in the web development world - since it is javascript, we could even *write gwt's gulp build tasks with gwt* ! (i think that it cannot be done straightforwardly with bazel) I think that this can prevent Java developpers from quitting GWT and it can also bring more pure Web developpers to GWT... It is also more consistent with the philosophy that GWT is embracing right now (IMHO) And it will also be more natural when needing to integrate a bit of Java code in a classic Web project. What do you think ? Thanks Arnaud -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/97962d74-18a5-4b27-8a05-ff8c6a4d55b8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
