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 buildr and gradle for some time now. Tried both buildr and
gradle in some real world settings. Right now I am favouring buildr since it
gives me a good feeling to have control over my build. But I am worrying
about the community. Seems that the gradle community is bigger and more
active than buildr. That is just my feeling.
In my build I have the need of building jars, wars and osgi modules. Could
someone give me a nice overview of pros/cons about buildr vs gradle?
I wrote something a while ago:
http://www.tikalk.com/alm/buildr-vs-gradle. There are also discussions
in stackoverflow.
I went for BuildR, mainly for the performance, but also because the
architecture looked better (Gradle felt more like a rewrite of Maven in
Groovy). However, I must say that I'm not so sure about the choice
today. People are encountering many issues setting up Ruby (not being
able to install rjb in mac, segmentation faults) and when looking at
JRuby, the performance advantage is gone. Also, Gradle seems to be more
actively developed.
As for Maven: did you look at maven-antrun-extended-plugin or the groovy
support?
Ittay
BR,
Sten Roger Sandvik
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