Glad to see this Dat & Uwe! RE "Should we all commit to the branch for proceeding?"
In this context do you mean are we "committed" to migrating to Gradle? (+1 from me). Or that future work should continue to use that branch? It seems very logical to use a branch. ~ David On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:46 AM Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > Hi Đạt, > > > > great work. I had some time to look into it, looks good as a start. I > agree there is a lot of work to be done, especially the additional tasks > for regenerating sources, extracting data from ICU, quality checks, > documentation (XSLT). Also the transcoder to Java 9+ for MR-JARs is still > missing as a “compile”-like task (I can help with that). > > > > Should we all commit to the branch for proceeding? > > Uwe > > > > ----- > > Uwe Schindler > > Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen > <https://maps.google.com/?q=Achterdiek+19,+D-28357+Bremen&entry=gmail&source=g> > > http://www.thetaphi.de > > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > > *From:* Đạt Cao Mạnh <caomanhdat...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 4, 2018 8:13 PM > *To:* Solr/Lucene Dev <dev@lucene.apache.org> > *Subject:* Call for help: moving from ant build to gradle > > > > Hi guys, > > > > Recently, I had a chance of working on modifying different build.xml of > our project. To be honest that was a painful experience, especially the > number of steps for adding a new module in our project. We reach the > limitation point of Ant and moving to Gradle seems a good option since it > has been widely used in many projects. There are several benefits of the > moving here that I would like to mention > > * The capability of caching result in Gradle make running task much > faster. I.e: rerunning forbiddenApi check in Gradle only takes 5 seconds > (comparing to more than a minute of Ant). > > * Adding modules is much easier now. > > * Adding dependencies is a pleasure now since we don't have to run ant > clean-idea and ant idea all over again. > > * Natively supported by different IDEs. > > > > On my very boring long flight from Montreal back to Vietnam, I tried to > convert the Lucene/Solr Ant to Gradle, I finally achieved something here by > being able to import project and run tests natively from IntelliJ IDEA > (branch jira/gradle). > > > > I'm converting ant precommit for Lucene to Gradle. But there are a lot of > things need to be done here and my limitation understanding in our Ant > build and Gradle may make the work take a lot of time to finish. > > > > Therefore, I really need help from the community to finish the work and we > will be able to move to a totally new, modern, powerful build tool. > > > > Thanks! > > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
