Comments on Tapestry Central: Gradle is Great

@Massimo absolutely; every attempt I've ever m...

2010-11-02T07:29:34.828-07:00

@Massimo absolutely; every attempt I've ever made to use a Maven Eclipse Plugin has caused stability and performance problems in Eclipse. Using mvn eclipse:eclipse has been my standard for T5 development and elsewhere ... so it's simple to swap that for gradle eclipse.

Did I read right you aren't using any maven pl...

2010-11-02T01:55:26.734-07:00

Did I read right you aren't using any maven plugin from within Eclipse, for example m2eclipse from sonatype?

I found Gradle some time ago, when I was searching...

2010-11-02T01:00:33.435-07:00

I found Gradle some time ago, when I was searching for some way to avoid using mvn. At the time project was around 0.7/0.8 ver and only thing that stopped me from finishing Tapestry 'archetype' was lsit of changes for next versions. They were changing main interface and that didn't encourage me to invest time till project is more stable. Now, with hiberante abandoning mvn and moving to Gradle, I think that I'll look into project once again, as it is my most wanted tool.

As for eclipse support. Back when I was interested more in gradle, they were writing that grovvy plugin will have some support for Gradle. I doubt if it will be so helpful as m2, but better something than nothing. As gradle can work with pom.xml i was thinking about creating pom, just for managing dependencies.

I couldn't find an automated way of publishing...

2010-10-29T06:32:34.752-07:00

I couldn't find an automated way of publishing artifacts to nexus central (because of the whole signing thing). With the release of maven 3 this may change, but as of today I don't know of any working solution.

Please post your findings, in any case.

I'm not aware of an Eclipse plugin, but I was ...

2010-10-29T05:26:41.701-07:00

I'm not aware of an Eclipse plugin, but I was using the "mvn eclipse:eclipse" goal for my various projects, and Gradle has the equivalent "gradle eclipse" task.

It has no problem pulling dependencies from a Maven repo, and has a Maven plugin to install to your local Maven repo. I haven't gotten as far as pushing to a remote repo, but that's in there.

It's sensible and succinct, and easily extensible because a Gradle build script is stil a Groovy DSL.

What about Eclipse support? Is there any plugin av...

2010-10-29T01:50:28.647-07:00

What about Eclipse support? Is there any plugin available?

Well I admit to speak as someone who have never us...

2010-10-29T01:45:57.536-07:00

Well I admit to speak as someone who have never used gradle but it still use the default maven repo for dependency?