----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Walluck" <david@xxxxxxxx> > To: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:07:50 PM > Subject: Re: Can we go to Groovy 2.0? > > On 07/05/2012 05:45 AM, Carlo de Wolf wrote: > > We should be able to bootstrap Gradle with any other build tool. > > Personally I think Ant is better, because of its simplicity. > > It is just a matter of executing the right steps (which different > > build > > tools do with different efficiency.) > > Ideally, I suppose, but someone needs to write it. Worst case, one > can > often call 'javac' directly to bootstrap. > > But in the case of something like 'gmaven' where groovy is a > first-class > citizen, you'd also have to worry about executing groovy scripts to > produce the .java code to compile. > > > To me the exit criteria of having a working Gradle is seeing > > Hibernate 4 > > build. So if you can fire that up, then we have working bits. :-) > > I am not sure if it's true in the community, but for the version of > hibernate that I worked with a gradle 'rc' version was required as > 1.0 > final had some API changes. Again, leave it to Java to make major API > breakages during an 'rc' since those letters apparently mean nothing. I really hope that the potential packager will package the latest released version in order to prevent such incompatibility problems soon after the package is introduced. Alex > -- > java-devel mailing list > java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
