Hi Andi, I'm quite familiar with Gradle and am happy to be involved. I think I have a decent understanding of the POI Gradle build as it stands and can certainly try answering any questions!
I have no opinion about Maven vs Gradle. I know my way around Gradle better, and am familiar with JPMS modularizing a project with it. -- Cheers, Marius Volkhart On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:30 PM Andreas Beeker <kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > since a few days / every now and then I try to get into our gradle build, > but I have some problems, because I somehow try to start big (with the > current gradle build) instead of building up from small example projects. > > As a few of you prefer gradle to the current ant build [2], I would be > willing to convert it, but I struggle with understanding the warnings > IntelliJ throws me at and also the way multi-module build / DSL usually > look like. > > So I'd wished to have two things: > > * maybe someone of you has time to go through the current gradle build and > explain me a few things. > > * modifying the project structure to something more modular, e.g. to have > a separate sub-tree for the main jar and the others modules. > > I'm not sure if this makes sense in the current project phase, but in case > you would argue, that the patches wouldn't match anymore ... with the JPMS > reorganization we already have that situation. > > So if there's anyone brave enough [1] drop me a note. > > Btw. if you would decide that a maven only build (opposed to the lite > version now in place) is also an improvement, I'm happy and capable of > doing that ... but the project structure should be change then too. > > Andi > > > [1] https://practical-tech.com/1983/01/01/real-men-dont-use-pascal/ > > [2] http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/Switch-to-maven-tp5722213.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
