On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:53 PM, William Ferguson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd also like to point out that there was and still is a very vibrant > Maven Android community long before Gradle was mentioned at IO13. If in > doubt just listen to the recording of the Android fireside chat at IO12. > > One of the things I like about Google's general approach is that it is > very open, so that developers can pick up the tool that best fits their > needs and apply it without much impediment. Not publishing the Android > artifacts has introduced such an impediment and while the community has put > up with the situation for the last 2 years, the cracks are starting to get > wide enough to do some serious damage. >
And I was a part of it. For years. It was awful, but it was the only way. It was also completely third-party so not only is it not Google's problem but you also go into it knowing there are risks of problems. There's an easy fix: stop using Maven. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
