Re: growl notification plugin

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> Am 21.08.2009 um 09:12 schrieb Hans Dockter:
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>> On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Rene Groeschke wrote:
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>>> Hello list,
>>> some weeks ago there was a discussion going on about notification  
>>> tasks that make use of twitter, growl, email etc. I've added a  
>>> notification plugin to my build, that actually uses Growl for  
>>> notifications. I rewrote the notification part in my build logic  
>>> for easy reuse. you can reuse it if you want. I've tested it with  
>>> the actual gradle trunk.
>>>
>>> I've just created a git repo at github.com. have a deeper look at http://github.com/breskeby/gradle-notify-plugin/tree/master 
>>>  .
>>>
>>> Actually the growl implementation is hard coded in the notify  
>>> plugin. The notify implementation(s) should definitely be more  
>>> decoupled. The sources contains some dirty code fragments and  
>>> contain no tests yet :-(. I hope to find time to add other  
>>> notification implementations soon.
>>>
>>> Comments, suggestions, ideas are appreciated!
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>> So far I had unfortunately no time to give this a try. I hope we  
>> have a plugin ecosystem infrastructure running within the next two  
>> months. This would make it much easier to give new plugins a try  
>> and of course to use non-core plugins in general.
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> I've just updated the code to work with 0.7. BTW. I  reorganized my  
> github repos and moved this plugin to
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> http://github.com/breskeby/gradleplugins/tree/master
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> which is a fork of Gregory Boissinots "gradleplugins" repo.
> Furthermore you can find an ExampleProject in src/samples for easy  
> testing. As you can see in the build.gradle of the ExampleProject it  
> is actually a lot of overhead to use a thirdparty plugin. I'm really  
> looking forward to that plugin ecosystem infrastructure you mentioned.
>
> In my opinion it is hard to say if notification should be part of  
> the gradle core. I guess the infrastructure for such notification  
> tasks (and maybe general implementations like email) should be core,  
> but implementations like this macos only growl notification shouldn't.