On 19/03/2011, at 2:29 AM, Gerwin Jansen wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I will mention Gradle as an option in my
> presentation, with the note that the issue is picked up before 1.0 but
> with unknown schedule time.
> If you want me to create a Jira enhancement for this, please let me know.

Please do.

> Also, if someone is interested in our full enterprise use-case I will
> be glad to explain.
> 
> Thanks for the support!
> Regards,
> Gerwin
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 23:52, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> On 17/03/2011, at 9:27 PM, Gerwin Jansen wrote:
>> 
>> Hi experts,
>> 
>> I work for an enterprise company and our build scripts (Ant, batch,
>> shell) are trouble. I'm asked to investigate the problems and come up
>> with a solution direction.
>> I started playing with Maven till somebody told me to have a look at
>> Gradle. And I'm actually getting exited about this tool. But I have a
>> specific use case, and I'm wondering whether Gradle supports this.
>> 
>> Our SVN branch is huge (3.62GB / 170984 files) and the main structure
>> looks like this:
>> root
>>   components
>>       basicutil
>>       eventservice
>>       bpmengine
>>       ...70 more...
>>   ..misc...
>> 
>> Every team is responsible for a few components. A developer does a
>> partial checkout of his component (a full checkout is not workable).
>> 
>> Now we have 2 scenario's
>> 1) The main build server does a full checkout and full build every night.
>> 2) The developer wants to build and test only his component before he
>> commits a change.
>> A requirement is to share build scripts
>> (conventions/declarations/etc.) as much as possible.
>> 
>> Is scenario 2 supported by Gradle?
>> 
>> It is, but it's quite awkward and requires some coding. This is something we
>> want to better support before we release Gradle 1.0.
>> At the moment, you'd need some logic in your settings.gradle which decides
>> which projects to include in the build. It could do this based on whether
>> the project directories are checked out or not. You'd also need some logic
>> which converts project dependencies into external dependencies for those
>> projects which are not included in the build.
>> 
>> What I understood so far is that
>> Gradle is looking in parent-parent folders for common/parent/shared
>> build scripts, which is not available on a developer machine (due to
>> partial checkout).
>> 
>> There're a few options here. One is to move the common logic into plugins
>> and/or scripts which are published to a repository, which the build scripts
>> can use. Another option is to move the common logic into a separate
>> directory which the developers must also check out. I guess you could use
>> svn externals, too.
>> 
>> --
>> Adam Murdoch
>> Gradle Developer
>> http://www.gradle.org
>> Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training,
>> Support, Consulting
>> http://www.gradleware.com
>> 
>> 
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