Hans Dockter wrote:
>> What the User's Guide doesn't explain is that Gradle is a
>> convention-based build system.
>
> I see this differently. Gradle offers optional plugins that allow for
> convention based builds. You don't need to use and still have a powerful
> general purpose build tool.
>
I haven't looked at the latest docs so I'm only going from the 0.5.2
ones but maybe what is needed are a few non-plug-in, non-trivial
examples. I know I can do everything in gradle that I could do in ANT
but not being a groovy expert and not knowing ant builder well (or
whatever the ant-groovy thing is), I always end up just trying a bunch
of stuff that looks like it should be right. Fortunately, within four
or five tries I get it right.
Sometimes I can find a near enough example in the documentation but I
almost have to completely re-read it to pick those gems out.
Not trying to be overly critical...
-Paul
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