Gradle
Gradle is a project build automation tool that uses a Groovy DSL
Ivy
Apache Ivy is a subproject of Ant to simplify dependency management
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They will be mapped to ivy configurations when gradle generates an ivy.xml;gradle s configurations are heavily inspired from ivy not ant but they aren t fully equivalent to ivy s configurations and we d have to discuss what you mean by equivalent from question Are Ivy and Gradle configurations equal? |
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We use gradle and chose gradle over maven and ant;ant gave we total flexibility and ivy gives better dependency management than maven but there isn t great support for multi-project builds from question Why use Gradle instead of Ant or Maven? |
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Today gradle comes with a full-fledged dependency management implementation that no longer builds upon ivy except for some traces that haven t been removed yet for backwards compatibility reasons from question Does Gradle use Ivy internally? |
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As you know ivy is a much more powerful and much less opinionated dependency management tool than say maven;gradle detects dependencies between projects and between projects and jars from question Why use Gradle instead of Ant or Maven? |
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Although buildr is undoubtedly a great effort at the moment gradle is much more professionally made;the only problem i faced with gradle is lack of native support for reusing ivy.xml and ivysettings.xml despite the fact that gradle actually uses ivy as its dependency engine from question Buildr vs Gradle, pros and cons? |