Comments on: Gradle Support

By: Ben Doerr

Ben Doerr — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:15:57 +0000

Just noticed that the gradle guys have put together a gradle-intellij-gui plugin. http://github.com/gradle/gradle-intellij-gui

By: Roger Studner

Roger Studner — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:46:28 +0000

All sorts of ways this isn’t right now.

a) there isn’t a groovy facet.. it is Add Framework Support.

b) Gradle 0.8/lib bundles groovy 1.6.4.. what if you are already using groovy 1.7

Just not sure if this is a “feature” in any way anymore

By: Peter Gromov

Peter Gromov — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:19:27 +0000

Roger,

No, we’re not running Gradle scripts to extract dependencies. Sounds like a nice feature or idea for a separate plugin.

By: Roger Studner

Roger Studner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:48:37 +0000

Well, the make key, to me, for all of this.. is that Intellij will be able to auto-configure the “lib” dependencies of a project via a gradle build script.

m2eclipse, and the ivyde plugins for eclipse… always were so painful about this part.. which in the end turned the IDE into a “text editor” and all build work had to be done outside the IDE, with jars being manaually copied around.

blech!

By: Peter Gromov

Peter Gromov — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:06:05 +0000

Steve,

Yes, you’re completely right. I doubt a bit whether it should be per-project or per-application setting, but I’m going to start with per-project and see what happens. The work is in progress and may be finished before the next EAP.

By: Steve Appling

Steve Appling — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:41:32 +0000

I would think it would be more natural to just define the location of the gradle install in a plugin - just like you specify an ANT install. This is a project level setting (not per module) and seems like it should be a property of the plugin. It seems very strange to be required to put my build tool in the classpath for my product. I don’t want the gradle classes accessible at runtime by my project’s code. Wouldn’t you find it odd to require ant.jar to be added to a module’s classpath to get ant support? Why is Gradle handled differently?

By: Peter Niederwieser

Peter Niederwieser — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:56:41 +0000

Great to see some Gradle support in Maia! Now I’m waiting for the killer feature - the ability to import a Gradle project into IDEA…

By: Peter Gromov

Peter Gromov — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:48:59 +0000

Steve,

Actually you don’t need a Groovy facet, it just provides a user-friendly interface to add Gradle to classpath. Actually it’s the Gradle library in classpath which enables Gradle support, and it’s necessary. So there’s currently no way of having different Groovy and Gradle versions in one module. Maybe there will be one in future.

Do you have any suggestions on how to make the Gradle configuration more intuitive, natural and Groovy-independent?

By: Hans Dockter

Hans Dockter — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:03:05 +0000

Yes. That would work without a problem.

By: Steve Appling

Steve Appling — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:39 +0000

I’m very happy that IDEA will include Gradle support, but find it odd that it is done through the Groovy facet. Why should I have to have a Groovy facet if I’m not using Groovy in my project. Gradle is just a build tool and does not imply any use of Groovy in your project. Wouldn’t you find it odd to require a Groovy facet to be able to use Ant? Won’t this cause problems if I am using Groovy, but need a different version of groovy than the one used in Gradle?

It seems like a Gradle installation should be independently selectable in a Gradle plugin like an Ant one is.