Did something to address this make it into .2? 

Fyi: I'm new to Gradle.

I created an issue regarding Maven migration here:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-154


hdockter wrote:
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> 
> On May 14, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Bert van Brakel wrote:
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>> hdockter wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Bert van Brakel wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I currently have a project in maven  (1 or 2) and I want to
>>>> switch to
>>>> using gradle, are there any tools for this?
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if gradle just looks for a pom.xml and simply
>>>> runs a maven
>>>> like build. It would certainly help to convince maven users to
>>>
>>> Such functionality is not implemented yet but we plan to this very
>>> soon. Similar to what you have proposed we want to offer 2 things:
>>>
>>> It is an interesting use case we haven't thought of to use Gradle to
>>> add functionality on an existing and still in use Maven build. For
>>> simple Maven builds I see no problem, if the poms use inheritance and
>>> are part of a multiproject build things look more complicated.
>>>
>>> We want to provide this functionality for 0.2.
>>>
>> great, sounds good!
>>
>> However I think supplementing a current maven build may be a good  
>> way to get
>> traction in the enterprise where folks tend to be risk adverse (fair
>> enough), don't have time to rip everything up and start again  
>> (after all,
>> time is money and you need to convince alot of people first of the
>> benefits), and developers don't tend to have a lot of time to try  
>> out new
>> tools and spend the time to set them up. If out of the box maven  
>> support
>> exists then it's a matter of install tool, run, done. The risk and  
>> ramp up
>> time is nil, if it doesn't work, then fall back to maven.
> 
> I completely agree. Soft migration paths are a very good thing.  
> Another step would be to integrate existing Ant and Maven builds as  
> they are, into a Gradle multi-project build.
> 
> - Hans
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