What do you think...

["Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>]

... about using Gradle for builds (http://www.gradle.org/)?  I've not
used it, but have been reading the book this morning.  It seems to be a
cross between Ant and Maven (Apache 2.0 license), with the richness of
both, without some of the problems of either ..... It will completely
consume Ant build files, so we could start small and work up....  Don't
know if the Jenkins environment supports it, though.

 

Does anyone have experience with Gradle and could comment?  Thanks.

 

~Roger Whitcomb

Re: What do you think...

[Roger Whitcomb <Ro...@rbwhitcomb.com>]

Yes I will make a JIRA issue for 2.1. 

Thanks,
~Roger Whitcomb

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On Jun 5, 2013, at 12:43 AM, Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I use Gradle at work since last year and I have to say that's a great tool
> (simple but powerful and compatible with Maven repositories) !!
> Many open source projects are switching to it (and others to sbt, similar
> but mainly for the Scala stack).
> We could use its wrapper so it's not needed to have it installed.
> 
> Jenkins at Apache should have a Gradle plugin, but could be old (and we
> should start with the latest version, currently 1.6) ... we have to verify.
> 
> So I think that instead of Maven we could try to move to Gradle, unless
> objections.
> 
> Roger, could you add a jira issue for 2.1 for this ? I can try to take a
> look in next days ...
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> Bye,
> Sandro
> Il giorno 04/giu/2013 20:21, "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>
> ha scritto:
> 
>> ... about using Gradle for builds (http://www.gradle.org/)?  I've not
>> used it, but have been reading the book this morning.  It seems to be a
>> cross between Ant and Maven (Apache 2.0 license), with the richness of
>> both, without some of the problems of either ..... It will completely
>> consume Ant build files, so we could start small and work up....  Don't
>> know if the Jenkins environment supports it, though.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone have experience with Gradle and could comment?  Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ~Roger Whitcomb
>> 
>> 

Re: What do you think...

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I use Gradle at work since last year and I have to say that's a great tool
(simple but powerful and compatible with Maven repositories) !!
Many open source projects are switching to it (and others to sbt, similar
but mainly for the Scala stack).
We could use its wrapper so it's not needed to have it installed.

Jenkins at Apache should have a Gradle plugin, but could be old (and we
should start with the latest version, currently 1.6) ... we have to verify.

So I think that instead of Maven we could try to move to Gradle, unless
objections.

Roger, could you add a jira issue for 2.1 for this ? I can try to take a
look in next days ...

Comments ?

Bye,
Sandro
 Il giorno 04/giu/2013 20:21, "Roger L. Whitcomb" <Ro...@actian.com>
ha scritto:

> ... about using Gradle for builds (http://www.gradle.org/)?  I've not
> used it, but have been reading the book this morning.  It seems to be a
> cross between Ant and Maven (Apache 2.0 license), with the richness of
> both, without some of the problems of either ..... It will completely
> consume Ant build files, so we could start small and work up....  Don't
> know if the Jenkins environment supports it, though.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have experience with Gradle and could comment?  Thanks.
>
>
>
> ~Roger Whitcomb
>
>