Wanted to point out that I have a new Gradle PoC branch in SVN at https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/branches/gradle2 Of special interest, this branch supports generating intellij project from the source. The Gradle guys have been really awesome in helping me to get this ready. You'll need at least the 0.9-preview2 release and you'd simply run 'gradle idea' to generate the intellij project. If anyone is really averse to installing gradle on their machines we could try generating a wrapper too: http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2010/05/gradle-goodness-use-gradlew-for-easy.html Its still a work in progress, but I think it shows the promise of using gradle. Really the only parts missing at this point are: 1) integrating the testing (testsuite, jdbc3 and jdbc4 testing) stuff which I have been waiting to do a "better way" leveraging Gradle strengths (because it allows more than one artifact per project) 2) doing docbook builds 3) special handling for building a release

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:08 +0200, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > hi, > > some thoughts. First, should the current gradle branch compile out of the > box? Well it does compile out of the box ;) You just said running the tests fail, which implies it got past compiling :) Anyway, so far on this branch the focus has been trying out the intellij plugin and getting all modules to compile. > > That said, I was looking on the wiki if we have some sort of page where we > document our > gradle experience. I couldn't find one. I think we should create one with > instructions > on how to build the current prototype. On this page we can then also start > a discussion about > our experiences. WDYT? > > Btw, while searching for Gradle on the wiki I found this comparison > between Maven vs Gradle - > http://community.jboss.org/wiki/MavenVsGradle Yep, I know of it. I Helped Paul collect some of the data points. The issue is it is really old. The comparisons were based on Maven 2 and Gradle 0.6. Lots has changed, especially on the Gradle side. But sure I can spend a little time writing up a wiki.