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Define better? Ant was unquestionably faster and extensible via custom tasks which the Android team could have done. Gradle will never be a fast build tool du
by smrtinsert 10y ago
Define better? Ant was unquestionably faster and extensible via custom tasks which the Android team could have done.
Gradle will never be a fast build tool due to its design goals. It was a clear mistake to switch to them if you applied any knowledge of build tools.
- lmm 10y agoAnt builds have always been unmaintainable messes IME, via the incredibly verbose syntax and difficulty of organising tasks effectively. I have many issues with gradle but it at least seems to result in reasonably concise well-factored builds most of the time.