> [...] things easier, then I don't think we should change it. Dependency > management is only a small part of what the build system does.
Well said. While I love Gradle's flexibility and power, complex built scripts (like Elastic's) are a headache to debug. Ant is a rough hammer I can understand most of the time, although it comes with its own quirks. > It would indeed be a big job. If you tackle it, I would suggest setting > it up so it exists in parallel with the ant build system for at least > all of 8.x. In the interests of stability, I don't think the work > should affect branch_7x. There's also a working (?) Maven build that is parallel with the one we have in Ant. So it's definitely possible. D. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
