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Jeff Fairley edited comment on FLEX-8 at 2/27/12 10:28 PM:
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I know nothing about Gradle, so this is in no way an argument against
supporting it. That said, I've been using Maven for Java projects for many
years and have been building all of my company's Flex projects using Maven /
FlexMojos for more than a year now. In general, the larger the company, the
slower they are to move on to new technologies, especially when that technology
is so fundamental as a build tool. Supporting something like Gradle before
supporting Maven sounds like a move that would alienate many existing users who
already have a handle on Maven and aren't interested in moving or don't have
time to move to Gradle or some similar alternative. Whether or not Gradle
support comes eventually, official Maven support within Apache Flex is a good
move for the future of the project overall in that it will make things easier
for a large set of existing users.
Personally, official Maven support is the one thing I'm most looking forward to
with the transition to Apache. Velo has done a great job with FlexMojos, but
it's way more than one man can handle. I would love to see that code adopted,
maintained, and improved by the growing Apache Flex community.
was (Author: jfairley):
I know nothing about Gradle, this is in no way an argument against
supporting it. That said, I've been using Maven for Java projects for many
years and have been building all of my company's Flex projects using Maven /
FlexMojos for more than a year now. In general, the larger the company, the
slower they are to move on to new technologies, especially when that technology
is so fundamental as a build tool. Supporting something like Gradle before
supporting Maven sounds like a move that would alienate many existing users who
already have a handle on Maven and aren't interested in moving or don't have
time to move to Gradle or some similar alternative. Whether or not Gradle
support comes eventually, official Maven support within Apache Flex is a good
move for the future of the project overall in that it will make things easier
for a large set of existing users.
Personally, official Maven support is the one thing I'm most looking forward to
with the transition to Apache. Velo has done a great job with FlexMojos, but
it's way more than one man can handle. I would love to see that code adopted,
maintained, and improved by the growing Apache Flex community.
> Make SDK build with Maven/Flexmojos and deploy release and snapshot artifacts
> to the Apache Maven repository
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> Key: FLEX-8
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-8
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Story
> Reporter: Espen Skogen
> Assignee: Espen Skogen
> Time Spent: 2h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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