I grumbled a lot against Maven when my employer at the time decided to throw away our Ant build for Maven, considering that:
- We actually made good use of Ant tasks and macros for having convention over configuration build infrastructure
- Maven was still on 1.0 beta releases, with incomplete support for the plugins we required
However this was more than 10 years ago, and nowadays I am yet to find something that beats Maven eco-system, specially given that I don't suffer from XML allergy, rather it is my favorite configuration format.
I cry a little beat every time I have to wait for Android Gradle builds.
Guess what, the upcoming Android Summit is enjoying yet another Gradle performance improvements talk. They can't get enough of them.
- We actually made good use of Ant tasks and macros for having convention over configuration build infrastructure
- Maven was still on 1.0 beta releases, with incomplete support for the plugins we required
However this was more than 10 years ago, and nowadays I am yet to find something that beats Maven eco-system, specially given that I don't suffer from XML allergy, rather it is my favorite configuration format.
I cry a little beat every time I have to wait for Android Gradle builds.
Guess what, the upcoming Android Summit is enjoying yet another Gradle performance improvements talk. They can't get enough of them.