On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Peter Firmstone <peter.firmst...@zeus.net.au> wrote:
> To me, going modular is a no brainer, but what tool should we use and why? > > * Maven > * Gradle > * Ivy & ant > > Please keep responses to the point, with any pro's and cons you have, eg: While deciding on a possible build system is certainly the business of who participate in development, I would add some thoughts to gradle: - how to judge adoption - gradle dependency handling is outstanding - transiting from ant can first be done by using what we already have, ant is a first class citizen - gradle folks are certainly willing to help in switching a project of this caliber - for more thoughts please check this out: http://www.gradleware.com/resources/tech/java/maven - mainstream IDEs support is not going to be a shortcoming: http://www.gradle.org/tooling (I know only IDEA where it works nice) Zsolt
