[rules-dev] Dropping Maven 2 for Gradle?

[Greg Barton]

"Serious" devs, even the best ones, can make foolish decisions. :)

--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [rules-dev] Dropping Maven 2 for Gradle?
> To: rules-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 8:55 AM
> Steve makes some good, valid points
> on that blog about Maven 2.
> I get the feeling that Maven 3 fixes a lot of those
> problems and the 
> maven 3.1 promises a lot too.
> At Devoxx 2009 I saw 2 presentations:
> - Gradle (the lead, forgot his name): showed a build of a
> one module 
> project with one source file - and it was fast. All in all,
> Gradle felt 
> like a toy (I must be wrong since the Hibernate guys are
> serious).
> - a Maven 3 (the lead, Jason) presentation: he basically
> went over all 
> the things I hate about maven 2 and stated that maven 3 or
> 3.1 would fix 
> them while remaining backward compatible. He showed a large
> 
> multi-project build with tons of sources files and it was
> relatively fast.
> 
> It will be very interesting to see how hibernate's
> experimentation with 
> Gradle goes and how the maven guys react.
> 
> 
> Nevertheless, I am convinced that most of the problems in
> our build are 
> fixable, by cleaning up our build:
>    https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-2504
> If I get some time for that, I 'd love to pull the effort
> to fix those 
> issues.
> 
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Smet
> 
> 
> Salaboy schreef:
> > I think that after the release it would be nice to
> research on this kind of things. And now if jboss has
> another framework that uses gradle, probably will be easier
> to migrate
> > 
> > - CTO @ http://www.plugtree.com
> > - MyJourney @ http://salaboy.wordpress.com
> > - Co-Founder @ http://www.jbug.com.ar
> > - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino -
> > 
> > On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:25, tolitius <webakaunt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Before you move to Maven 3. There is still a
> chance to do the right thing: 
> >>
> >>   http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Gradlewhy
> >>
> >> one of the JBoss projects ( Hibernate ) already
> realized that. Time for
> >> Drools to do to.
> >>
> >> /Anatoly
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