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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Binaries (jars) in our source tree/source releases.
From: Andy Gross <andy@andygross.org>
In-Reply-To: <CC41B3C2.29D17%chiradeep.vittal@citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:27:17 -0700
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I've heard good things about Gradle, and "because everyone else is doing =
it" is rarely a good justification for choosing technologies, but it =
seems Maven is the de facto standard for most Apache (and other open =
source) projects.  If integrating Cloudstack in other environments or =
extending Cloudstack are important for developers and users, Maven might =
be the easiest way to go.=20

Just my .02. =20

- Andy


On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Chiradeep Vittal =
<Chiradeep.Vittal@citrix.com> wrote:

> Gradle seems to be another
> http://www.gradle.org/
>=20
>=20
> Since it is allows scripting (as opposed to configuration xml), it =
could
> potentially fulfill the waf role as well.
> Anybody have any experience with Gradle?
>=20
> On 7/24/12 2:19 PM, "Alex Huang" <Alex.Huang@citrix.com> wrote:
>=20
>>> Just out of curiosity, have tools like Ivy and maven been ever
>>> considered for
>>> dependency management?
>>=20
>> We are looking at these two tools.  Our first thoughts is devs should =
be
>> able to start projects that are tied to other parts of their code so =
we
>> want this to be as flexible as possible.  Maven forces too much of a
>> structure on to the developers.  Ivy seems like the right tool to go
>> with.  Any comments?
>>=20
>> --Alex
>>=20
>=20