> -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Zhang [mailto:frank.zh...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 5:35 PM > To: CloudStack DeveloperList > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Binaries (jars) in our source tree/source > releases. > > > > > Gradle seems to be another > > http://www.gradle.org/ > > > > > > Since it is allows scripting (as opposed to configuration xml), it > could > > potentially fulfill the waf role as well. > > Anybody have any experience with Gradle? > > It seems Gradle received great reputation among famous java communities, > Hibernate, Spring are all using it. > People claim it brings ant's flexibility as well as leveraging maven's > dependency repository. However, I don't have experience on it. > Anybody knows?
Gradle sounds cool, Groovy DSL is much easier to write and read than the plain XML. > > > > > > On 7/24/12 2:19 PM, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > > >> Just out of curiosity, have tools like Ivy and maven been ever > > >>considered for dependency management? > > > > > >We are looking at these two tools. Our first thoughts is devs > should > > >be able to start projects that are tied to other parts of their code > so > > >we want this to be as flexible as possible. Maven forces too much > of a > > >structure on to the developers. Ivy seems like the right tool to go > > >with. Any comments? > > > > > >--Alex > > >
