Hi ...my name is Susanna Dion Gillard's wife . He passed away Sept 2008 .Apacahe foundation is aware . Thanks and sorry to deliver this via mail.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Tom Eyckmans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2009/3/5 Martin Zdila <[email protected]> > >> Hello >> >> We are working on a project consisting on multiple projects and are using >> Apache Ivy for defining dependencies between projects and between third >> party >> libraries. Dependencies are described in ivy.xml files so it works well >> also >> with the IvyDE Eclipse plugin. For building, we are using Apache Ant. >> Unfortunately we have come to the point when ant prooves itself to be >> insufficient for reaching our requirements. We need special dynamic >> building >> features that and itself cannot provide. >> >> Therefore we'd like to use some more suitable building system. Gradle >> seems to >> be able to fulfill our needs.I personally don't like much the conventions > > (defaults, implicit values) because I rather specify all mandatory >> properties >> manually so I allways know what property is set to what value. I also >> don't >> like that the one functionality can be written in many ways - then it >> looks >> like a perl, where each programmer writes in his own way and then other >> programmers can hardly understand the code. I would also rather write my >> build >> scripts in java than in groovy. I wouldn't mind the code verbosity. It is >> better for me than that amount of the groovy's syntactic sugar. > > > This is indeed a rather personal preferrence that might be adressed in a > future release as we plan to support more than only Groovy build scripts. > >> >> >> In any case, Gradle seems to be is still better than Ant. But the major >> blocker from starting to use gradle is its (in)ability to reuse existing >> ivy.xml files. > > As far as I'm aware Gradle currently doesn't support this however we do > plan to add such a feature as there is already a JIRA for it > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-197. > > >> We don't want to specify dependencies in the gradle files but >> want still to benefit from other gradle dependency/multiproject features. >> According to the manual this should be possible, > > Could you point out to the section of the userguide that made you come to > this conclusion so we can clear it up? > > >> but we've found no example >> how to use it. We want to stay using ivy.xml because of IvyDE >> (autocompletion >> and library/project dependency handling inside eclispe). So, is this >> actually >> possible with gradle? If yes, then how? >> >> The best for us would actually be building system where we can write build >> rules directly in the java and then compile it all. Actually a great would >> be >> just a building library providing ant-like tasks (not ant.jar, as it >> relies on >> some of its weird principles). Is there something like that? I know, I am >> in >> the gradle mailing list, but maybe somebody can help :-). >> >> We'll appreciate any help. >> Thanks in advance. >> -- >> Martin Zdila >> CTO >> >> M-Way Solutions Slovakia s.r.o. >> Letna 27, 040 01 Kosice >> Slovakia >> >> tel:+421-908-363-848 >> mailto:[email protected] >> http://www.mwaysolutions.com >> xmpp:[email protected] <xmpp%[email protected]> (Jabber) >> skype:m.zdila >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >> >> >> > -- dIon Gillard There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
