Port the build to Gradle

[wilkinsona]

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[dreis2211]

Hi @wilkinsona. I maybe have a stupid question. Isn't that breaking the semi automatic dependency upgrade process? And is there maybe a replacement for it?

Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind moving to Gradle other than publishing metadata for the modules? Where there any problems with the Maven tooling?

Cheers,
Christoph

[wilkinsona]

I maybe have a stupid question. Isn't that breaking the semi automatic dependency upgrade process? And is there maybe a replacement for it?

It's built into the build now:

 ./gradlew spring-boot-project:spring-boot-dependencies:bomrUpgrade

Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind moving to Gradle other than publishing metadata for the modules?

The Gradle metadata is really just an added bonus. The main motivation was to be able to reduce build times by parallelising the build (something we couldn't do in Maven due to our use of the Invoker plugin) and to take full advantage of Gradle's build cache.

[dreis2211]

Are the build times of 8-10 minutes correct? That would be an amazing improvement. 🚀

[wilkinsona]

Yep, they're correct. Things won't always be that good as that's pretty much a best-case scenario where there are lots of cache hits.