20 Feb
2011
20 Feb
'11
6:16 p.m.
On 20/02/2011 5:00 PM, Ralph Goers wrote:
Gradle is a build tool, not a language. Joern was asking about it replacing Maven. I attended a presentation on Gradle at SpringOne and concluded it wouldn't meet the needs of my organization - it is somewhere between Ant and Maven. It isn't clear to me why one would want to switch from Maven to Gradle when the build is already working.
AFAIK, Gradle is an in-language DSL. SBT is also an in-language DSL but in Scala. When you choose betweenr Gradle or SBT, you are also making a choice between Groovy and Scala to some extent. So, yes, it may seem that my answer to Joern was off topic but the language question bears some relevance to the topic at hand.
Ralph -- Ceki