Also looking forward to it. :) especially if it speeds things up. Moving forward with it in 9x and not 8 sounds good to me. There are folks out there who build themselves custom builds of Solr, so build changes this big seem like a sort of back compatability concern, though obviously only for a minority.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:05 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya < ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) http://www.the111shift.com (play)
