what I really miss from Maven ever since I started...

# multiplatform

[addamsson]

what I really miss from Maven ever since I started using Gradle is the effective pom

[ian.shaun.thomas]

what is wrong with your POM with gradle? Using uploadArchives it was a general nightmare to get a correct POM but with maven-publish the POM files generated seem to be correct.

[addamsson]

what I meant is that when I apply a plugin

[addamsson]

I don't see what happens

[addamsson]

under the hood

[addamsson]

I need to check the source

[addamsson]

with maven you just add some xml, and you can generate an effective pom

[addamsson]

everything is explicit

[addamsson]

with Gradle you can't achieve this since your build is not an xml file but a script

[addamsson]

I'm not saying that Maven is better

[addamsson]

I moved to Gradle for a reason

[addamsson]

but I still miss effective poms

[ian.shaun.thomas]

ah yes, I agree. I find gradle to effectively prefer/encourage the use of "magic" which is not something I really want in a build system but we don't get much of a choice on the matter unfortunately given the weak/non existent support to non gradle alternatives

[Dico]

I believe gradle's api design and implementation are beyond bad but unfortunately there isn't something better right now.