On 15/07/2011, at 4:04 PM, Adam Murdoch wrote:
> On 15/07/2011, at 2:12 PM, Luke Daley wrote:
>
>> I'm doing a little bit of work on the application plugin for m4.
>>
>> Should I change it to use an extension instead of the current convention?
>> This would be a breaking change. i.e.
>>
>> applicationName = "app"
>>
>> to
>>
>> application {
>> name = "app"
>> }
>>
>
> It would be nice at some point to have a model that can define multiple java
> applications for a project, similar to how we want to define multiple native
> executables or libraries for a project. And to split out the model from the
> convention, rather than have them bolted together in the application plugin.
I agree completely, but this is a big change and an idiom shift.
To really get there I think we have to define a new paradigm for plugins
generally, and untangle the assumptions in the Java plugin.
--
Luke Daley
Principal Engineer, Gradleware
http://gradleware.com
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