Switch from Maven to Gradle

[janschaefer]

Replace the given Maven build system with Gradle

[aaschmid]

Do you prefer a single build file or as per project as you have it now with your poms?

[aaschmid]

I just don't know how to build a maven plugin by Gradle. Maybe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11209382/build-maven-plugins-using-gradle helps.

[aaschmid]

There are still a lot things to do, just look at https://github.com/TNG/junit-dataprovider/blob/master/build.gradle to get some ideas ...

[janschaefer]

Thanks for already working on this :-)
I think I prefer one file per project. And I already planned to have a look that the junit-dataprovider ;-)

[aaschmid]

Some further questions on this issue:

• What was the thing with sonar in build.xml? Shell I also configure it for Gradle?
• Shell I configure checkstyle?
• Do you want me to configure findbugs?
• Do you want to publish *-tests.jar as well?
• Is it a problem if there is no more parent pom?
• What is special about building the maven plugin, can we do that manually generating the required files?

[janschaefer]

• I think I will configure Sonar, it is currently only used by me locally
• Checkstyle would be nice, but it has no priority for now, same for findbugs
• test-jars must not be published
• I am not sure whether a parent pom is needed, I guess not
• Regarding the maven plugin, I don't know we have to check that

[aaschmid]

• Ok, I will let you build the sonar thing, maybe http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/sonar_plugin.html will help :-)
• I have added checkstyle as it is also included in pom.xml
• Should "test-jars" be build?
• I think we do not need any parent pom, but you can just test by just include latest v0.5.4-SNAPSHOT from https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/tngtech/jgiven/

[janschaefer]

Great! Thx! The test-jars are not necessary, IMO. Then the main thing that is missing is the maven-plugin. I will have a look at that.