[forge-dev] Support for the Gradle build system as a plugin for Forge

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Yes. I agree100%, but to modify the gradle build file, we will need to be
able to parse and understand the source. It would be nice to include a
Groovy Parser in Forge anyway!

Gradle definitely has a lot of tooling issues to overcome.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com>wrote:

> AFAIK, gradle team tells tooling that want to understand gradle build files
> is to use and *run* gradle-tooling-api to parse it. Don't try parse it.
>
> I believe eclipse plugin uses that.
>
> See http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/embedding.html
>
> (it's one of the reasons I'm not really happy about gradle since its
> dog start/slow to run on large set of projects - they keep saying that
> will improve though...)
>
> /max
>
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:27:20PM -0400, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> >Hey Adam,
> >
> >Thank you so much for your proposal! We have reviewed your submission and
> >so far all the mentors have given it a high rating :)
> >
> >I took a look at your prototype groovy-manager project, which looks very
> >interesting. You are doing source parsing for groovy, which is pretty
> >challenging.
> >
> >While writing a parser from scratch can be a thrilling challenge, I have
> to
> >say that it can be quite a burden! We started writing our own Java-parser
> >for Forge, but quickly came to find that even parsing a type-safe language
> >is incredibly difficult.
> >
> >We ended up using the Eclipse JDT as a base implementation for our
> >JavaParser.
> >
> >Have you looked for any Groovy parsers that may already exist today? This
> >would give you a quick boost when working on this project. It may be the
> >case that the parser would require some usability improvements to make
> >integration with Forge simpler, and simpler for plugin devs, but I think
> it
> >is safe to say that a search for existing parsers is warranted.
> >
> >If a suitable parser can be found, I would suggest that we revise your
> >proposal to allow for several weeks to become familiar with that parser,
> >and then allocate the rest of the time to actually working with it to
> >implement the gradle support.
> >
> >I'd suggest starting here, with the Groovy Eclipse Plugin - they almost
> >certainly already support groovy syntax:
> >http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin#EclipsePlugin-KeyFeatures
> >
> >The problem with writing your own parser is that you have to maintain it
> :)
> >Better to delegate.
> >
> >~Lincoln
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Adam Wyłuda <adamwyl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello JBoss community,
> >> This year I want to participate in an OS project and GSoC gives me great
> >> opportunity to do so.
> >> Here is my idea as GSoC 2013 proposal:
> >>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/adamw/1
> >> I'd be very happy to hear your opinions (I hope it's not too late).
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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> >"Simpler is better."
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