On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Sten Roger Sandvik wrote: > > > Sten Roger Sandvik wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I am a heavy Maven 2 user but lately I have been really tired of it. Been >>> looking at both gradle and buildr for some time now. Tried both gradle and >>> buildr in some real world settings. Right now I am favouring buildr since it >>> gives me a good feeling to have control over my build. >>> >> >> I'm curious what you feel you don't have control over with Gradle. Do you >> have some examples? I'm pretty confident that whatever Buildr offers you in >> this respect, Gradle offers equivalent options. >> >> > I have looked at gradle some more now and feel that I have more control. > The only think I wish for (before considering moving from Maven) is the > following. > > * Osgi plugin that does the same as Felix Maven Plugin. It seems to me > that the current osgi plugin is just manipulating the manifest. Are there > any plans? > > > What exactly do you want to achieve? > > I have some bundles that include resources and classes from other jar files. In felix bundle plugin you can embed dependencies using the Embed-Dependency instruction. I use this all the time. Would like something like that in the osgi plugin. Or can this be written using some other constructs? > * A good gwt plugin - gwt compile/run. This is simple enough since it has > a ant task. > * Better speed. Seems that version 0.8 is slow. Do not know why though. > > > What exactly is slow? > > Startup time? > Average Build time? > It's the startup time. I have compared Maven 3 and Gradle and it seems that gradle is alot slower to start up in both JDK 1.5 and 1.6. The speed is not that important and is not a blocker for using Gradle. /srs
