Migrate to gradle

[wallner]

To ease the build and release process I suggest that we migrate the build process away from Maven to Gradle. I started to work on that in my fork, please feel free to have a look. We need to work out a release process with Gradle though. Does anybody have an idea?

[tkrille]

+1, I like Gradle!

We need to work out a release process with Gradle though. Does anybody have an idea?

There are some plugins for Gradle, specifically there's even 1 plugin that implements the same process as our well-known maven-release-plugin: https://github.com/researchgate/gradle-release

There's also some more information here: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-the-maven-release-plugin-in-gradle/6827

[dacrome]

I found a good equivalent of the maven shade plugin: https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow