Re: [Exist-development] gradle vs maven

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

Did I miss something where Dannes said he wanted something?

On 17 October 2011 17:25, Dmitriy Shabanov <sha...@gm...> wrote:
> So, we have two fronts: one wants how, another - what.
> Is it possible to find consensus? The answer is not clear for me after year
> and 9 months =)
>
> Is it possible to have top level of Gradle declarative? My guess, yes. That
> can give features that Dannes want and keep it declarative as Adam would
> like to have.
>
> Adam, did Gradle change after your last look on it?
>
> Dannes, your notes?
>
> Others?
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
>>
>> I did consider in some detail Gradle, Buildr and Ivy+Ant before
>> settling on Maven.
>>
>> The main advantage to Gradle is complete flexibility as its written in
>> programming code i.e. Groovy.
>> The main disadvantage to Gradle is complete flexibilty and having to
>> write code in Groovy.
>>
>> I decided on Maven and not Gradle because -
>> 1) Many more people know Maven than Gradle.
>> 2) The tooling and support for Maven is much much better than Gradle.
>> 3) I didnt want to have to learn Groovy and ship a Groovy run-time
>> with my application.
>> 4) I think a build system should be declarative, i.e. I want to build
>> these things, NOT how to build these things. Maven allows you to
>> describe what things to build, Gradle allows complete flexibility a
>> bit like Ant but more so, I didnt want to end up in the situation
>> where we are with Ant now, i.e. maintaining thousands of lines
>> describing how to build something.
>>
>> I did actually put together a presentation for the eXist developers
>> meetup in Prague, but there was not actually enough time to give it
>> formally - you can find my slides for that here -
>> http://www.adamretter.org.uk/presentations.xml
>>
>
> --
> Dmitriy Shabanov
>



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