On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Stefan Groschupf wrote:
WOW! This is pretty overwhelming for people want to look into the
gradle code.
This is for people who want to RUN Gradle from there IDE to do
debugging. These are mostly Gradle developers. For just looking at
the code is it good enough to follow these steps: http://
docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/How+to+set+up+the+Gradle+project
+in+IntelliJ
STILL WOW!!!!
This is way to much. Right here is your barrier to get new developers.
For example what you need to do to get katta our gradle build open
source project up and running:
1.) check out the code
2.) add src/main{java|test} as sourcefolder
3.) add all under lib to the classpath
The directions for settings up a Katta project in IntellIJ would be
EXACTLY the same. Except the bits to add Groovy support. There is
nothing to improve AFAICT.
Run Katta.main() - READY!
Running Gradle is much more complex then running Katta. After all it
is a installable command line distribution with many options. The
challenge is to make it possible to run Gradle from a Main class
without the necessity to have Gradle installed. This is possible with
Gradle and we are very happy about this.
Everything else is too much. If you want to get more contributors
you need to make this a no-brainer.
Also screw intellij, 95 % of all developers are not using intellij,
they use vi, wordpad, eclipse or what ever so do not make it
intellij only that for example turns me off.
As we are a project which uses a lot of Groovy IntelliJ is a natural
choice at the moment. But I agree that it would be good to have a
page for Eclipse as well.
Thanks for your feedback.
- Hans
--
Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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