On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 01:44 +0100, Luke Taylor wrote:
> The point of a convention-based approach is that you don't have 
> explicitly run compiler tasks or copy files all over the place. You just 
> stick your files in the place where the Java plugin expects them to be 
> and it compiles them for you, runs your tests and builds your jar file. 
> And yes, that's what maven does and it's generally a good thing, at 
> least as a starting point on which you can build. If you find that 
> cryptic then you should probably stick with ant, but personally I found 
> the manual very useful and well written.

Or use Gant :-)

> And of course, you can still use ant through gradle to do any of the 
> things you can normally do with ant. Have a look at gradle's own build 
> file and you will find plenty of examples in there of ant calls (running 
> java, zipping files, copying stuff etc):
> 
> http://svn.codehaus.org/gradle/gradle-core/trunk/build.gradle
> 
> 
> 
> Luke.

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