On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
We need replacement for many plugins :) > > 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 >> >> -- Thomas Mortagne
