GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Justin Deoliveira
<jdeolive@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just recently read a blog post about hibernate switching there build
> system from maven to gradle. And the reasons why:
>   http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Gradlewhy
> A lot of which apply to the geotools project.
> Next time we consider a build system upgrade perhaps gradle is something we
> want to look at.

Looks like a good plan to me - Do you have a feel for (or have seen
elsewhere) how much effort is needed to make the change? I'm guessing
it is harder than gradle --import pom.xml?

Ian

> Next time we consider a build system upgrade perhaps gradle is something we

Apparently, buildr also tries to address some limitations of Maven:
http://buildr.apache.org/

It is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for Maven 2.

I haven't tested it yet, but we are also thinking of a way out of
Maven for our builds...
(although I will give a last chance to Maven 3, which has just been released)

I think you should give maven3 a try first, there are major improvements.

At camptocamp we use Gradle for all of our Java projects now.  It slims down
the project build configuration by about 1/2 or so and some of the hacks
required by maven unnecessary.

Migration from Maven to Gradle will likely be some work since Gradle cannot
call Maven plugins so Ant replacements will have to be used for those cases.
 Although I don't know how much plugin hackery we have in our build system.


As for maven 3,  It does boast some improvements, especially around speed
but it was mostly a re-write of the internals so it won't clean up our build
system but a speed up would be nice.

Jesse

I haven't tried Gradle yet but have read good things about it - though
they've mostly been written by maven-haters :)

Are there any issues with using maven repositories in a Gradle build ?

Maven 3 is faster but that seems to be at the expense of memory. My
little macbook runs out of heap space trying to do a full build of
GeoTools with m3 but is fine with m2.

Michael

On 25 November 2010 00:35, Jesse Eichar <jesse.eichar@...> wrote:
> At camptocamp we use Gradle for all of our Java projects now.  It slims down
> the project build configuration by about 1/2 or so and some of the hacks
> required by maven unnecessary.
> Migration from Maven to Gradle will likely be some work since Gradle cannot
> call Maven plugins so Ant replacements will have to be used for those cases.
>  Although I don't know how much plugin hackery we have in our build system.
>
> As for maven 3,  It does boast some improvements, especially around speed
> but it was mostly a re-write of the internals so it won't clean up our build
> system but a speed up would be nice.
> Jesse
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