[gradle-dev] Easing the Ant (nad Maven) -> Gradle path

2008-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
I will spend some time over the next few days and weeks trying to use Gradle as a Gant replacement. I will also look to create a Gradle Ant task and using Ant XML scripts from Gradle. Some immediate thoughts though: 1. I need to find out how Gradle supports what in Gant are called tools and tar

Re: [gradle-dev] classloader fun

2008-10-08 Thread Hans Dockter
On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Adam Murdoch wrote: Hans Dockter wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Adam Murdoch wrote: Hans Dockter wrote: On Sep 27, 2008, at 1:34 AM, Adam Murdoch wrote: So, I'm not sure what to do with this now. I don't really understand the purpose of executeIso

Re: [gradle-dev] Class name from file name issue

2008-10-08 Thread Hans Dockter
On Oct 6, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Russel Winder wrote: I see that the build.gradle file becomes the build_gradle class. This is exactly what used to happen with Gant, build.gant -> build_gant. However it turns out that this leads to serious debugging problems in Eclipse (and elsewhere?) -- cf. GANT-

[gradle-dev] Gradle development

2008-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
Hans, I think the thing I can do that might help immediately is to create a Gradle Ant task and a Gradle plugin to read an Ant XML file and install the targets as targets. The former is relatively straightforward -- the Gant code can be transferred and amended -- the latter will need a bit more w

[gradle-dev] Re: [gant-user] Gant and Gradle

2008-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 08:45 +0200, Hans Dockter wrote: > On Oct 8, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > > On the one hand you can use Gant within a tag but then Gradle > > can be used this way as well, so that is fine. There is also the > > > > tag which enables Gant to be used in the sam