I've never used Gradle but have used Maven a little bit. What would be nice is that I could build my JSword dependant project by retrieving the latest build from the repository.<div><br></div><div>Does Gradle offer this? </div>
<div>[Just thought I'd add thoughts from a developer who uses JSword as a library, rather than develops JSword itself!]</div><div><br></div><div>and the link is <a href="http://gradle.org">gradle.org</a>, not .com</div>
<div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2010 15:12, Manfred Bergmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bergmannmd@web.de">bergmannmd@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't use Gradle for JSword but for almost all Java/Java web/Scala projects that I'm working on. There is a Ant->Gradle converter script which might be of use to port the existing Ant files to Gradle.<br>
Yes, it is not yet version 1.0 but that doesn't mean anything. AFAICT it is stable.<br>
However Gradle got some rather large changes from 0.5 to 0.6. Not so much the user API but under the hood and I believe efforts are under way to port the core of the build system to Java (it is currently Groovy) because of speed issues.<br>
Since I don't know Maven very well I can't say if does have all the power of Maven.<br>
However it does have multi-project builds, plugin support, dependency management. And the good thing you can configure all this without XML files.<br>
And one feature I like very much, the build script are actually Groovy scripts. That means you can add custom logic, variables or methods to your script.<br>
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Am 25.02.2010 um 13:27 schrieb avolunteer DrStovallFoundation:<br>
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> If Gradle is an improvement would you please post your files for a JSword build? I looked at the first page of <a href="http://gradle.com" target="_blank">gradle.com</a>. I saw some nice but brief boasts. However it is still version 0.8. I would rather spend time using what promises to be the future rather than spend more time learning what does seem to me to be overly complex. Is Gradle going to have all of the power of Maven?<br>
> Thanks for pointing us towards it,<br>
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> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:52:07 +0000<br>
> From: Manfred Bergmann <<a href="mailto:bergmannmd@web.de">bergmannmd@web.de</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] Doesn't Maven offer greater power and<br>
> flexability than Ant?<br>
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> Hmm. I'm actually hoping to not have work with Maven. I used it some times for getting template projects for Apache Wicket or Lift and some other but always found a way around it since then. Maven is a monster. :)<br>
> I've come to use Gradle instead:<br>
> <a href="http://www.gradle.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gradle.org/</a><br>
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