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For all the java devs who can scape maven insanity exists ivy.

• philbarr 13y ago
  Lots of people seem to be moving over to Gradle now? I don't suppose anyone can provide an opinion on Gradle vs. Maven? Personally I've always found Maven to be a pain, but a necessary evil for larger projects / teams. I've tried using it for smaller personal projects and the benefit wasn't worth the time invested. I'd rather not invest more time learning Ivy / Gradle / anything else until someone can convince me it's not the same old crap under a different label...
  • reiz 13y ago
    Good point! I will blog more about that. I think there is a reason for that, why there are so many build tools out there in the Java ecosystem. Obviously there is no clear winner and the people are not satisfied with the current status.
• moondowner 13y ago
  And Gradle http://www.gradle.org/ http://www.gradle.org/
  • vorg 13y ago
    Will Gradle ever expose an API so developers can use the same language for the build scripts as they do for the projects they're building, i.e. Groovy with Gradle for Groovy projects, and Scala with Gradle for Scala projects? The Gradle overview at http://www.gradle.org/overview http://www.gradle.org/overview says "The Gradle design is well-suited for creating another build script engine in JRuby or Jython. It just doesn't have the highest priority for us at the moment." Perhaps if Gradle easily enabled any JVM language to be used, there'd be far greater uptake. There's a few of us out here who don't like using Groovy.