Hi Rob, > I think we might be coming towards time to make this move or at least > accommodate for gradle builds in commons.
Are you picturing that continued use of Maven will hinder development? Is it restricting us in some way? Regards, Matt ________________________________ From: Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 8:48 PM To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> Subject: Re: [all] Thoughts on build system maven -> gradle?? > On Jul 16, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Alex Remily <alex.rem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For those of us not as familiar with Gradle, what are some of the > benefits? Drawbacks? So gradle is an analog of maven, in that it provides dependency management in the same fashion. However, the configuration is written in groovy (not my favorite, but indeed a Turing complete language). Clearly the trade off would be that Apache’s main set of libraries moves off its build system, and that in itself may be a non-starter (I’m ok with that, but I feel the conversation valuable). It seems like newer java projects favor a gradle build system because most java developers these days heavily rely upon spring. I honestly don’t know what the right direction here is, and I’m entirely open minded to anything anyone in the community has to offer. All the best, -Rob > >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 5:30 PM Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think we might be coming towards time to make this move or at least >> accommodate for gradle builds in commons. Let’s look to the success the >> Spring Framework has had here with gradle. That said, I’m merely trying to >> gauge opinions here and am entirely content to stay with maven, if that’s >> what the community wishes. >> >> I’m a +1 on at least letting gradle be a part of our systems (don’t have to >> get rid of maven either). >> >> Cheers, >> -Rob >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
