Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Christoph Theis
On 23.04.2021 16:17, Emma Atkinson wrote: Christoph The guide suggests Ant and Gradle builds coexist until one has confidence that both build tools produce the same things. That was what I intended and why I choose the Gradle-path, but I could not make it work. A tool doing the heavy lifting

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
While Ivy is an excellent tool to manage dependencies. It has a niche market. So unless somebody steps for it and implements a better support for that, I fear voting for it won't do that much. On 4/23/21 9:27 AM, Oliver Rettig wrote: +1 for better ivy integration > On 23.04.2021 15:22,

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Oliver Rettig
+1 for better ivy integration > On 23.04.2021 15:22, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > > Ant projects can be fairly simply can be migrated to Gradle. It can > > support your current folder structure. Your file/directory based library > > dependencies, and occasional customization you made. > > Been there,

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Emma Atkinson
Christoph It so happens I have just read a migration guide that looks reasonable and do-able. It's at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/migrating_from_ant.html and addresses option for Ant and mentions Ivy. The guide suggests Ant and Gradle builds coexist until one has confidence that

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Christoph Theis
On 23.04.2021 15:22, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: Ant projects can be fairly simply can be migrated to Gradle. It can support your current folder structure. Your file/directory based library dependencies, and occasional customization you made. Been there, tried that, and failed. If you have a

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Neil C Smith
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 15:23, Laszlo Kishalmi wrote: > Ant projects can be fairly simply can be migrated to Gradle. Well, I've often said Gradle is just Ant with slightly better syntax! :-) Joking aside, good point, and I'd be interested to see a converter too. Best wishes, Neil

Re: removing the "new project" support for Ant projects

2021-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kishalmi
If someone has a well establised Ant project and he would migrate that to Maven, then he/she is looking at the wrong direction. Ant projects can be fairly simply can be migrated to Gradle. It can support your current folder structure. Your file/directory based library dependencies, and