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Joe Stein commented on KAFKA-1171:
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Even moving to Gradle I will ask the same questions.
What are we gaining vs the risk involved of ripping something out that is
fundamentally working (couple issues that are minor fixes now at this point).
Will test cases run faster? Will it be easier for folks to integrate it into
their environment when doing development?
What problems are we trying to solve by introducing this change?
I have read enough about gradle that I would not be surprised if an argument
could be made a proved out it is better than sbt if it all actually worked and
could do everything (including publishing repo, building release, etc) ... I
feel ant/xml to be very verbose and something that has continually become out
of favor which means less people to steward and support projects using it
(resources go down).
Not sure if you have seen this but it seems in gradle you can do ant task type
things http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/ant.html
> Gradle build for Kafka
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> Key: KAFKA-1171
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1171
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: packaging
> Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9.0
> Reporter: David Arthur
> Assignee: David Arthur
> Attachments: 0001-Adding-basic-Gradle-build.patch,
> 0001-Adding-basic-Gradle-build.patch
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> We have previously discussed moving away from SBT to an
> easier-to-comprehend-and-debug build system such as Ant or Gradle. I put up a
> patch for an Ant+Ivy build a while ago[1], and it sounded like people wanted
> to check out Gradle as well.
> 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-855
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