using Gradle and loving it.

Rakesh

On 30 July 2012 14:17, Carl of the Posse <carl.qu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To respond to the original question: I think we didn't get into talking
> about Maven because I (and I think) Tor don't have much experience with it.
> Dick does, I know, but I guess he didn't have much to say about it.
>
> I looked at it briefly when figuring out how to evolve our build system at
> Netflix, but rejected it as too disruptive. Our teams are very independent,
> and it would have been a difficult sell to some of them. It also seemed
> that trying to adapt or extend Maven in ways it didn't agree with would be
> an exercise in pain.
>
> I instead opted for a gradual evolution of our ad-hoc Ant-based build
> files into a simple Ant framework with Ivy dependency management and lots
> of Groovy doing the hard work. Almost all projects have tiny build files
> that leverage the common framework. Now we are in a position and in the
> process of migrating to Gradle, which I think takes a better, more scalable
> approach to the build problem than Maven's do-it-my-way-or-suffer approach.
>
> --carl
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