Re: [ANN] Gradle 0.3 is released

> Hi,
>
> we are pleased to announce the release of Gradle 0.3, a Groovy based
> build system.
>
> To learn more see: www.gradle.org
>
> Here is a summary of the most interesting new features and improvements:
>
> - Gradle provides now a separate JDK 1.4. compatible distributions.
> - We have improved the handling and naming conventions for archive
> tasks. See user's guide (UG) 9.7.3.
> - The War plugin is now much more flexible regarding library handling.
> Gradle provides now a provided configuration to add libraries that
> should be used for compile and testing, but should not be bundled with
> the war. See UG 11.
> - After going through a lot of pain with the windows start scripts we
> have decided to get rid of them and replace them with exe commands
> generated by launch4j. Thanks to Adam Pohorecki for contributing the
> foundations for this.
> - To improve the responsiveness of Gradle the compiled build and
> settings files are now cached. For how to control the cache, see UG 4.6.
> - Every task action has now access to the graph of the tasks to be
> executed. See UG 2.10.
> - The wrapper task is now much more configurable regarding where the
> involved files are stored. See UG 16.
> - We have started to implement a listener framework around the Gradle
> lifecycle. You can now register for example an afterEvaluateListener
> with a project which gets called after a project's build script is
> evaluated. For an example see UG 14.2.3.
> - The Test task generates now JUnit HTML reports.
> - Gradle enables now to execute tasks via their absolute path. See UG 14.4.
> - You can now define default tasks. See UG 2.9.
> - You can define now global exclude for dependencies. See UG 12.2.6.
> - Due to Groovydoc problems, we were not able to provided reasonable API
> doc in the past. This has changed now. For a big part of our public API
> we provide now Javadoc. With the release of 0.4 we will be able to
> provide this for all our API.
>
> For our roadmap see: http://gradle.org/roadmap.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Hans
>
> --
> Hans Dockter
> Gradle Project lead
> http://www.gradle.org
>
>
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