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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, 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 no 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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