First feelings: Pros: * Feels fast * Powerful (you can do anything with it)
Cons: * I don’t like it much * Gradle is very hackish * You need lots of best practices for someone else to be able to read your gradle build (what maven fixed from Ant) * I don’t like the settings.gradle file and the fact that you have to declare all your modules in it Thanks -Vincent > On 12 Apr 2017, at 17:49, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, I’ve done a first commit at > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/commit/de3b11c575720c34c32a9f16fe84e9e0b491e108 > > I’m still unsure whether we should do this in master or not. > > One issue is going to be the maintenance of dependencies between the Maven > build and the Gradle build. Thus I think it might be better to move the > gradle stuff into a branch and perform a move/rewrite the day we’re ready to > switch. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: If you’re curious here are some typical Gradle builds: > * https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/build.gradle > * https://github.com/mockito/mockito/blob/release/2.x/build.gradle > * https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/master/build.gradle > * https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/master/build.gradle > >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 21:31, 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. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> PS1: FTR I did my first gradle build at >> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/docker-xwiki/blob/master/build.gradle >> 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…). >
