The document discusses how Gradle can be used to simplify build scripts by providing more expressiveness and less ceremony than other build tools like Maven and Ant. It provides several links to resources about using Gradle to simplify builds and developing Gradle plugins. The document encourages reading example code and being part of the open source Gradle community.
The simple compile was replaced by a Makefile -which was replaced by an Ant build.xml -which was replaced by many build.xml files -which were generated by an XSLT transform -which was replaced by Maven And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people.
The same story happens over and over 1.We observe a pattern 2.We create abstractions and generalisations 3.We turn the abstractions into a framework 4.The framework becomes a Golden Hammer 5.People start to subvert the framework 6.Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity
The simple compile was replaced by a Makefile -which was replaced by an Ant build.xml -which was replaced by many build.xml files -which were generated by an XSLT transform -which was replaced by Maven And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people. The same story happens over and over 1.We observe a pattern 2.We create abstractions and generalisations 3.We turn the abstractions into a framework 4.The framework becomes a Golden Hammer 5.People start to subvert the framework 6.Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity
The simple compile was replaced by a Makefile -which was replaced by an Ant build.xml -which was replaced by many build.xml files -which were generated by an XSLT transform -which was replaced by Maven And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people. The same story happens over and over 1.We observe a pattern 2.We create abstractions and generalisations 3.We turn the abstractions into a framework 4.The framework becomes a Golden Hammer 5.People start to subvert the framework 6.Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity
The simple compile was replaced by a Makefile -which was replaced by an Ant build.xml -which was replaced by many build.xml files -which were generated by an XSLT transform -which was replaced by Maven And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people. The same story happens over and over 1.We observe a pattern 2.We create abstractions and generalisations 3.We turn the abstractions into a framework 4.The framework becomes a Golden Hammer 5.People start to subvert the framework 6.Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity
The simple compile was replaced by a Makefile -which was replaced by an Ant build.xml -which was replaced by many build.xml files -which were generated by an XSLT transform -which was replaced by Maven And Maven brought forth a Plague of Apache Commons, and there was a flood of all the Libraries of the Internet as a judgement upon the people. The same story happens over and over 1.We observe a pattern 2.We create abstractions and generalisations 3.We turn the abstractions into a framework 4.The framework becomes a Golden Hammer 5.People start to subvert the framework 6.Finally, sometimes, simplicity grows out of adversity