----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Walluck" <david@xxxxxxxx> > To: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 7:04:35 PM > Subject: Re: Can we go to Groovy 2.0? > > On 07/05/2012 10:23 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > > 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. > > IMO, gradle is a really bad idea/design. Instead of being declarative > like ant, it contains actual code to do the build (which seems > completely unnecessary and will tend to make every build different). I can not agree more. I have never seen worse build system in Java land. Alex > > The code generally extends the gradle API, so if the gradle API > changes, > and it does, all build files must be patched. I can say this was > mostly > never a problem for ant, which also tried to retain backwards > compatibility for the most part. > -- > 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
