Hans,

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 07:43 +0200, Hans Dockter wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Rene Groeschke wrote:
> 
> > Hello there,
> > I've just contributed a macports portfile for automated installation  
> > of gradle (version 0.5.2) on macos. Macports is a kind of apt for  
> > MacOS.
> > See http://www.macports.org/ for more informations about macports.  
> > Unfortunately the portfile is actually not committed yet. you can  
> > follow this issue at https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19246
> >
> > To use this portfile locally on your macos you can add the file,  
> > listed as an attachement, to your local macports repository.
> 
> Excellent stuff. I'd love to automate this as part of our release build.

I am not sure this is an issue for Gradle per se.  I would love to see
both Gant and Gradle as part of MacPorts, and also Debian and Solaris
(and Fedora and SuSE, but I don't have machines running them).  Gradle
and Gant should do as much as they can to make it easy for packages to
package quickly and easily as soon as a release is made.  However the
infrastructure needs to do the packaging should be the responsibility of
the packager not Gradle or Gant.

Interestingly Groovy gets packages and released on MacPorts and yet
there is no package maintainer.  I wonder how that happens?

Corollary, Gradle and Gant on MacPorts, Debian/Ubuntu, Solaris, Fedora,
SuSE will not be using their own versions of Groovy but the one
installed.  This mean Groovy 1.6.1 on MacPorts.  So Gradle needs to be
guaranteed to work with Groovys 1.5.6 and 1.6.1 (Ubuntu for the former
and MacPorts and Debian for the latter).

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