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Gradle as alternative build tool
What gradle can do:
- Basic dependencies management
- Fat Jar (a jar including all external dependencies)
- Easy custom plugin written in Java/Groovy/Kotlin
- So that we can do JNI generation (might be helpful)
Also, I can help with maven package manager source deployment (bintray, jcenter and jitpack).
We may need an account for PingCAP Inc. (maybe some admins should go to https://bintray.com/, register an account and give me the API token to publish libraries, then people can use this java client from their package manager's built-in dependency management to download this package)
The Gradle build is temporarily disabled for the client now due to:
- multiple tools (Maven, Gradle) makes maintenance complicated for dependency management.
- some plugins support Gradle/Maven only.
Once they are fixed, we can add Gradle build back.
Could you illustrate more about why we need to adopt Gradle as the build tool? for example:
- What are the problems you met with maven? Can they be solved gradle?
- What are the functions you wish to have that maven can not provide but gradle can?
I found that gradle's maven publication plugins are much easier to use, and the maven's maven publication plugin doesn't support Java 17 (it means that if you are working with a JDK 17 installed on your machine, you can't publish your project). See https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-26993