No problem. I will get it to work entirely, but not before next week - I am
away for the weekend.

Dawid

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 16:17 Cassandra Targett <casstarg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dawid for working on this! I’ve been a bit swamped the last couple
> of days but will take a look today at what you’ve been able to do so far
> and see where we might need to go from here.
>
> Cassandra
> On Sep 26, 2019, 7:25 AM -0500, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com>,
> wrote:
>
> I agree. Although I also understand the concern of trying to merge the
> changes while we're in the transition period... it'd be hell. I'd say
> move as much stuff as possible with the current folder structure (and
> ignore what cannot be ported easily) then switch as soon as possible
> to gradle and hack the old cruft with a chainsaw...
>
> D.
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Of course I’ll completely defer to Dawid and Mark (well and anybody else
> actually, you know, doing _work_), but just can’t resist chiming in ;).
>
> My vote would be to “do it the Gradle way”. Yes, it’s a PITA to learn new
> stuff and I won’t like it. Tough. I see no reason to carry a bunch of cruft
> around because “that the way we always did it”.
>
> If we lose functionality, that’s a different discussion, starting with “do
> we need that functionality". But jumping through hoops and having to
> maintain that awkwardness forever going forward just because we forced the
> Ant structure on Gradle strikes me as a poor trade off.
>
> That said, I’m not doing the work so I really have no vote. But don’t
> strain to do it the old way on my account ;)
>
> Erick
>
> P.S. Thanks Dawid for jumping in!
>
> On Sep 26, 2019, at 3:57 AM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I pushed it in to Lucene repo (it's on Cassandra's refguide branch
> anyway, so shouldn't interfere with anything else); seems like it's in
> better shape than previous code anyway (those questions I asked about
> the nature of the gradle port still hold though).
>
> I got as far as building initial bare-bones HTML.
>
> .\gradlew -p solr\solr-ref-guide clean bareBonesHtmlValidation
>
> I don't know anything about the pipeline involved (asciidoctor, etc.)
> so it's very likely some attributes will have to be corrected later
> on.
>
> Dawid
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 9:14 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I looked at the solr ref guide build and started converting it to
> Gradle but have a question to Mark (because he coordinates the
> effort).
>
> What immediately jumps into face is the decision problem -- do we want
> to emulate what ant does at the moment or do we want to clean it up
> (breaking file/ folder structure and causing incompatibility with ant
> build).
>
> I went the "compatible" way and started porting ant tasks but it's
> quite awkward. For example -- there are template properties that refer
> to ivy version properties... we could emulate/ compute these but it's
> a pain. The way the module is currently structured is also awkward -
> it'd be more natural to have a separate java project with the "tools"
> required to compile extra stuff and just reference it from the manual
> build (and this would be a plain module, not a java module). This
> would limit the need for customizing source sets, classpaths, etc.
>
> My few initial tasks syncing sources, setting up infrastructure to
> filter templates and compiling the required tools are here:
>
> https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/compare/jira/SOLR-13452_gradle_7_refguide...dweiss:jira/SOLR-13452_gradle_7_refguide?expand=1
>
> I'll stop and wait for feedback (especially on the ivy versions issue)
> before I resume.
>
> Dawid
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:20 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Never mind, I've got it.
>
> D.
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 7:59 AM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Cassandra,
>
> I’m more than happy to share more details our current build so we can
> replicate some of the above steps, but I’m stuck without a lot more basic
> Gradle skills that I don’t have time to acquire with day-job/personal life
> commitments. I put it into a separate branch so we could iterate a little
> easier, can anyone help?
>
>
> Where is this branch you made changes on? If you can point me at the
> corresponding ant code I'll try to help you out.
>
> Dawid
>
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