Gradle vs JFrog Artifactory vs Pants

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Pants

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Pros of Gradle
Pros of JFrog Artifactory
Pros of Pants
  • 110
    Flexibility
  • 51
    Easy to use
  • 47
    Groovy dsl
  • 22
    Slow build time
  • 10
    Crazy memory leaks
  • 8
    Fast incremental builds
  • 5
    Kotlin DSL
  • 1
    Windows Support
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    • 6
      Creates deployable packages
    • 4
      Runs on Linux
    • 4
      Runs on OS X
    • 4
      BUILD files
    • 4
      Runs tests
    • 4
      Scales
    • 2
      Flexibility
    • 2
      Extensible

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    Cons of Gradle
    Cons of JFrog Artifactory
    Cons of Pants
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      Inactionnable documentation
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      It is just the mess of Ant++
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      Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal
    • 2
      Bad Eclipse tooling
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      Dependency on groovy
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        What is Gradle?

        Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

        What is JFrog Artifactory?

        It integrates with your existing ecosystem supporting end-to-end binary management that overcomes the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and provides consistency to your CI/CD workflow.

        What is Pants?

        Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.

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          What are some alternatives to Gradle, JFrog Artifactory, and Pants?
          Apache Ant
          Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.
          Jenkins
          In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
          Groovy
          It is a powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform. It supports a spectrum of programming styles incorporating features from dynamic languages such as optional and duck typing, but also static compilation and static type checking at levels similar to or greater than Java through its extensible static type checker. It aims to greatly increase developer productivity with many powerful features but also a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.
          Apache Maven
          Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
          Bazel
          Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
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