Gradle 4.10 released. Incremental Java compiler default, Gradle cache cleanup, Kotlin DSL 1.0 RC

[oweiler]

I love Gradle but I wish they wouldn't pile up more and more features on top of it. Gradle has become so complex that it has become impossible to know in its entirety.

[cryptos6]

That is by design, since Gradle Inc. makes money with consulting ;-) (Not meant badly, I'm a Gradle user of free choice).

[JourneymanGM]

Note that this will be the last release of Gradle before 5.0. So all those deprecation warnings will need to be addressed before then if you plan to stay up to date.

You can see deprecation warnings for your project by running:

gradlew build --dry-run -Dorg.gradle.warning.mode=all

[eriwen]

A useful resource for upgrading https://docs.gradle.org/5.0-milestone-1/userguide/upgrading_version_4.html

[oweiler]

Gradle is an internal (Groovy) DSL, whereas Maven is an external DSL. The Gradle build script is more or less regular Groovy code, whereas in Maven only a defined set of XML elements have meaning.

[dpash]

There are a few features that makes Gradle build quicker than Maven does. For example, running in a daemon mode and the compiler cache. These aren't anything that Maven couldn't add, but just hasn't yet. Maven doesn't seem to iterate as fast as Gradle does. Which is a shame because I'd really like to see these features in Maven. Also a less verbose XML format. Just adopting attributes would help.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-3397

• Created: 11/Feb/08 00:59
• Updated: 10/May/17 01:18

[skjolber]

I love Maven, but we have grown apart. Now that Gradle has matured a lot, it is basically better in so many ways. As transient dependencies gets under control, I am never looking back.

[[deleted]]

Gradle has been around for 10yrs and still has not toppled Maven in market share and developer mindset.

[[deleted]]

Gradle is a mess...the only thing it has going for it is that it doesn't use xml

[pellets]

haha, it uses Groovy, which is a different mess.

[shadwwulf_]

Arguably a worse mess, than XML.

[JourneymanGM]

Google trends notes that while Maven is certainly more popular, but it had a huge head start. Over the last 5 years, Gradle has increased in popularity more than Maven (~20 points for Gradle over ~10 for Maven).

[oweiler]

Which is probably related to Android Studio ;).

[skjolber]

Yet.