Dave Pawson <> writes:
> I stopped at "you don't have to understand it" Norm?
> ... rude words.
Apologies. No disrespect intended.
> I got as far as ant for builds. I can understand most of that.
> Bash script... similar? Maybe
> gradle? Wozzat.
>
> Why make it deeper than needs be?
Well…I’m not sure I agree that it’s deeper than it needs to be.
I’ve been building toolchains for ages: make, ant, bash, perl,
ruby, python, sbt, etc. etc. etc.
I settled on Gradle because of the advantages I outlined in that
posting: it’s significantly better than ant for dealing with Maven and
for extensibility; it’s cross platform (unlike bash); it’s relatively
easy to install on most platforms (unlike make, perl, etc.); and it
transparently deals with a whole lot of the backend infrastructure.
Be seeing you,
norm
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http://nwalsh.com/ | pointless ones.--Jacques Chardonne
