On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 22:29 +0900, Remko Popma wrote: […] > Just out of interest, will Gant migrate to groovy.cli.commons.CliBuilder or > groovy.cli.picocli.CliBuilder?
Well on the one hand, Gant is a dead project that no-one cares about. It hasn't had a release since Codehaus died, mainly because I can't work out how to get a release into Bintray/Artifactory/Maven Central – mostly because no- one uses Gant and do not actually care, so I don't work on it (*). On the other hand I do regularly build it just to see what is broken. Mostly just to be amazed at how broken it has become. Let's get 2.5.0-rc-3 out there and I might take a more serious look just for the hell of it. Gant is based on ancient Groovy and it's build on ancient Gradle, technically it all needs a significant rewrite, but Gant was a thing of 2006 to 2008 (**) so well past it's use by date – unless someone know differently. (*) Much of this also applies to GPars. (**) Because Gradle. Obviously. Gant lost it's raison d'etre when Hans and Adam started Gradle in late 2007. And good for Hans he did a great job. -- Russel. ========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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