On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 11 Apr 2017, at 09:25, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> BTW I think we’ll need to think about exploring gradle in not too long. > >> > >> Maven continues to stagnate while gradle is moving fast ahead. > >> > >> One important feature of gradle is performance (see also > https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-gradle-build-cache and > https://blog.gradle.org/incremental-compiler-avoidance). Apparently it > beats maven easily and that coud make things much nicer for us. The > worrying point for me is the ability to find existing gradle plugins to > replace the maven ones that we use. > >> > >> What we could do is to commit the start of a gradle build in our SCM > (starting with xwiki-commons) as a way to explore Gradle and see what’s > missing compared to our current maven build. In other words, it would be a > way to slowly start to learn Gradle. > > > > Not really sure what you mean exactly. Create a Gradle based branch in > > xwiki-commons and a dedicated Jenkins job ? > > No, I meant to commit it in master, next to the pom.xml file (it’s called > build.gradle) with a warning in the file explaining it’s experimental and > that the Maven should be used for the full-fledged build. > > IMO it wouldn’t be visible enough in a branch and would require too much > merging. And IMO it’s not a big issue if it’s not fully working yet > provided there’s some explanation about the state in the file itself or > output when you run it. > +1 to do it on master. We could also try it on some of the contrib extensions we support (like CKEditor), but we need a replacement for the XAR maven plugin, right? Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > WDYT? > >> > >> Thanks > >> -Vincent > >> > > > >> PS1: FTR I did my first gradle build at https://github.com/xwiki- > contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle > > > > About that, you should probably setup gradlew. See > > https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html and > > example on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-authenticator. > > > >> PS2: I’m worried about the smaller reliance on conventions in gradle > than in Maven (as you can see from https://github.com/xwiki- > contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle, it doesn’t use any fixed > structure and we’ll need plenty of best practices, it really reminds me of > Ant…). > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > >
