[KUDU-2066] Add experimental Gradle build support

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Grant Henke
• Reporter: Grant Henke
• Created: 12/Jul/17 03:34
• Updated: 03/Aug/17 21:11
• Resolved: 03/Aug/17 21:11

Description

Kudu recently ran into some Maven build limitations where shaded dependencies across modules were not being resolved consistently. (See the discussion on KUDU-2043 for details).

While discussing this issue, we thought experimenting with a Gradle build in parallel would be a valuable exercise to see the benefits and flexibility it could provide.

This jira tracks the initial patch. However follow up fixes and enhancements will likely be needed.