Hey Hans, This is the easiest way to contact you, and this question might be useful for other people as well, so hence the mailinglist.
The other day, I saw the video from your presentation in Tel Aviv, linked by the "Get Excited" page. In the first few minutes, you mentioned that Gradle has this awesome feature allowing you to skip certain tasks, and you used that in your talk to make the argument that there is still room for innovation in the Java build world. It seemed like that this particular feature was inspired by other build tools, and you gave the examples of Rake en SCons. I was unable to find that feature in both build tools, at least not without customizations to your own build scripts. Was the "skip feature" inspired by some other build tool, or is this feature basically new in the build world? Are there actually any other "non-standard" features that were inspired by other build tools, as well? For example, I really like the possibility to specify a sort of 'build library' you store online, using your "apply from:" statement (the github example @36.00). This is really neat, and I haven't seen that around, as well. Thanks, Thijs
