http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-505 - it contains the growl
idea as well as the accounce task idea

Jason Porter
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:51, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On May 25, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Daniel wrote:
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>> One neat thing to do on the mac, that is on a related note, would be to
>> support Growl, as Buildr does. It's very nice to have a window popup that
>> says your <couple of minutes lasting> build failed, while you're surfing the
>> web. Growl has a Java API (don't know how good it is), and a commandline
>> interface. Growl is Mac only, but that shouldn't be too much of an issue,
>> other platforms will have similar means of communication.
>
> That is a very nice idea. Could you file a Jira for this?
>
> - Hans
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On May 25, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Jason Porter wrote:
>>
>> Awesome.  I guess the proper way to do this then would be to fork the
>> project on GitHub?  Also are there problems with building on JDK6 (I'm
>> on a Mac, BTW)?  I'm running into heap space issues and tried to
>> increase the memory via the options in the build.gradle and the
>> gradlew in the root directory, but it doesn't look like it's being
>> accepted.  I could try building in IntelliJ, but haven't yet.
>>
>> We have to solve the heap space issues. I guess you have run into them
>> while running the unit tests?
>>
>> On the other hand, you don't even need to fork Gradle.
>>
>> What you could do for development is the following. Set up a new Gradle
>> project. This means:
>>
>> myProject
>> - build.gradle
>> - buildSrc/src/main/groovy
>>
>> You can add all your Java/Groovy classes for writing the task into the
>> source directory: buildSrc/src/main/groovy
>>
>> You can use the build.gradle script for testing your stuff. What happens
>> is, that when you trigger a build the buildSrc code is automatically
>> compiled and available to the build script classpath. So in your build
>> script you can do:
>>
>> task myAnnouncement (type: <fullyQualifiedNameOfYourTask) {
>>   <configuration>
>> }
>>
>> Then you can execute:
>>
>> gradle myAnnouncement
>>
>> The compiled buildSrc result is cached and invalidated if the source is
>> changing. In the case you run into issues with stale caches you can always
>> do: gradle -C rebuild myAnnouncement
>>
>> Your custom task should probably extend the DefaultTask. Have a look in
>> the Gradle source for examples.
>>
>> - Hans
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jason Porter
>> Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.
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>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:50, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On May 23, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Jason Porter wrote:
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>> In the release announcement of 0.6.0 the idea of a Twitter plugin was
>> introduced to post when successful milestones happen (like the
>> completion of 0.6.0).  I'm up for the challenge of creating one, but I
>> think a general task / plugin (I'm not sure which would be best) that
>> would let you do announcements would be more beneficial.
>>
>> This is a very cool idea. The Gradle build itself will be the first user
>> of
>> such a task.
>>
>>
>>
>> I imagine a module (for lack of knowing which is better) that would be
>> able to take a type argument or configuration and in the backend it
>> would set that up for you and use the closure for configuration stuff.
>> So I'm thinking you could do things like RSS, Twitter, or email just
>> to name a few.  Then in your configuration closure you'd specify the
>> needed information, SMTP, twitter credentials, message, etc.
>>
>> My first question: Would a task or a plugin be better for this?
>>
>> On first sight I would say a task might be a good enough. For example our
>> test task is also part of a framework where you can either choose JUnit or
>> TestNG.
>>
>> How things can look like at the end:
>>
>> There is a task jar (with as many helper and framework classes you like).
>> This jar would be available from a repository.
>>
>> In the settings.gradle you would say:
>>
>> mavenCentral()
>> dependencies("com.jason:announce-task:1.0")
>>
>> In the build.gradle you can do:
>>
>> task twitter(type: 'com.jason.gradle.Twitter') {
>>  use('twitter')
>>  ....
>> }
>>
>> The stuff in the closure is applied against the API of your Announce task.
>>
>>
>> Second:  Is a general framework like this with different
>> implementations possible in Gradle?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> - Hans
>>
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>> Hans Dockter
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>> http://www.gradle.org
>>
>>
>>
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