On May 1, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Andrew Pietsch wrote:
Howdy,
First off let me say well done on Gradle, it looks great. I tried
buildr a while back but couldn't get it to work due to some weird
issues on my G5 Mac with one of it's ruby dependencies. No such
trouble with gradle.
I'm still a newbie but I have managed to write a basic plugin to
build my GWT projects. This has gone pretty well with 0.5.2; I
tried migrating to the latest 0.6 snapshot but had some problems and
have decided to revert to 0.5.2 till 0.6 has a little more
documentation.
In 0.6.x it seems that the install task of the maven plugin won't
work unless the war plugin is also used (i.e. the war plugin defines
the providedCompile and providedRuntime configurations).
Right, this is a breaking change.
Using the war plugin however results in my project creating a war
instead of a jar which is not what I want.
What is your use case for the war plugin?
You can easily enable the generation of the jar with the war plugin:
archive_jar.enabled = true
On a similar note, when writing my GWT plugin (for 0.5.2) it would
have been nice to use the 'provided' configurations without
requiring the use of the war plugin. This is particularly the case
when developing a GWT library that needs to be released as a jar but
still needs to define 'providedCompile' dependencies (e.g. gwt-
user.jar, gwt-dev-xxx.jar etc).
Given that, would it make sense for the 'provided' configurations to
be defined by the java plugin?
I see your use case. An alternative would be to have another plugin
which declares solely the provided stuff (The war plugin would
automatically apply it). Could you file a Jira for this with fix for
0.7?
Also, I know 0.6 is still in development but simple things like
changing the location of my local maven repository or deploying to
and external repository wasn't obvisous. It would be great if the
samples (or documentation) had examples of just the basics (for
newbies like me). e.g. changing the location of your local maven
repo, deploying to a maven repository, deploying to an ivy
repository etc.
For 0.6 we have a couple of quickstart samples also in the user's
guide. We see the demand for this and we will continuously improve in
regard to this.
Many thanks for your feedback. Apologies for taking so long to reply.
- Hans
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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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