Looking forward to it, and thanks a lot for your effort. Excited! On Sat, 8 Jun, 2019, 4:29 AM Mark Miller, <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I have heard no objection, I've continued working on moving the > project from ant+ivy+maven to gradle. > > At this point I've contributed significant time to this project. I hope > everyone has taken the time to consider this change and their possible > concerns. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but there is too much effort > involved to get caught up at the end. > > There is still a lot to do, it's not going to happen tomorrow, but many, > many things are done. > > The performance of the build in comparison to what we had will astonish > you on good hardware. > > Even comparing to your experience with the majority of maven builds, this > will be *significantly* faster. This is without using the gradle build > cache or paying proper attention to task uptodate properties. > > There are considerable improvements and benefits we can reap from this > change, but the sheer speed has made the development experience for me way > more enjoyable. > > My goal is to take us from a very powerful but complicated and slow and > clunky and dense build to what is essentially a modern top tier build > experience in power, performance, integrity and ease of use. > > I've made significant progress over the past month or so, but it will > likely take me another 2-4 before I plan on having something I'd considered > ready for prime time 9x duties. > > I'll take the time needed to get things right, hopefully everyone else > will take the time to help with a transition when that time comes. > > My hope is that version 9 is the first built with gradle. We can consider > it being available on 8 as well, but I don't think it makes sense to > release 8x versions with gradle. I think we should only consider the gradle > build on 8x as a developer convenience and it would be on the users of it > to address keeping it up to date with changes on the ant build as problems > arise. Depending on the time, it may not even make sense to put effort here. > > This weekend I'm wrapping up some work on making our dependency management > headache more transparent. I think we can make a lot of improvements on > understanding what is in our build and why and what is published or shipped > where and why. > > -- > - Mark > > http://about.me/markrmiller >
