On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Hans Dockter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Nick, > > On Sep 9, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Nick Evgeniev wrote: > > Hi, Just want to know if it's possible to use maven repositories with >> gradle (read & publish). we're reconsidering project build infrastructure in >> our company. So far we've evaluated maven, ivy, maven ant tasks as a >> replacement for homegrown ant scripts. Unfortunately every evaluated >> solution has it's own shortcomings. For example with ivy I can resolve deps >> against maven repositories but can't publish to. Even if we don't use maven >> as a build system, I see no reason not to use local (company wide) maven >> repository for cross project deps. with ivy it's not possible (or I have to >> use both ivy + maven ant tasks, maintain ivy.xml & pom.xml i.e. it's a bug >> prone approach). as gradle is based on ivy I suspect that there is no native >> support for maven repos? Is it correct? >> > > Yes > > If so, is it on todo list? >> > > Yes > > when? >> > > We plan to release 0.4 today or tomorrow. We want to improve the support > for Maven Repos in 0.5. It is a top priority feature as one of my customers > requires this. What we want to provide is the possibility to deploy poms > with any Ivy resolver, including deploying snapshots. Our plan is to do this > on the Ivy level and want to contribute this to the Ivy project once it is > ready. This is very interesting, and I'm pretty sure this will interest the Ivy community. If you want to increase the chance to get this into Ivy core, I suggest discussing your ideas as soon as possible on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's the best way to fit in Ivy philosophy, and we may even ease your job. Xavier -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant BordeauxJUG co leader - http://www.bordeauxjug.org/ Blogger - http://xhab.blogspot.com/ Apache Ivy Creator - http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
