Misagh, On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Misagh Moayyed <[email protected]> wrote:
> So questions are: > > 1. How do others feel about this build tool and the approach? > I am very much in favor of a serious exploration of Gradle as a the (one and only) build tool for uPortal. - It *does* appear to support scripting arbitrary behavior much better than Maven and even Ant - Cris’ point about maybe we’re doing too much of that is very sensible, but even if we make all the best moves, we may chose to do _some_ of that sort of thing, particularly around portlets - There is compelling evidence that Gradle may make the build much faster, in addition to the scripting benefits > 2. Has anybody begun working on the same proposal locally perhaps? > I have, though I had to set it aside. > 3. What uPortal release should this be targeted to? I’d assume 5.0 as > this would be a pretty big change both in scope and the effort/time required > to implement this. > It's a uPortal 5 thing, as I understand it, though I’m open-minded. drew -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
