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: > > > On May 14, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Bert van Brakel wrote: > >> >> >> 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 > >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Out-of-the-box- >> maven-support--tp17143114p17225951.html >> Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >> >> > > -- > Hans Dockter > Gradle Project lead > http://www.gradle.org > > > > > > ----- ___________________________ http://stubbisms.wordpress.com http://stubbisms.wordpress.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Out-of-the-box-maven-support--tp17143114p18374421.html Sent from the gradle-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
