Cache management
The main focus of any build tool is to not only automate the build and deployment processes, but also how to manage the cache effectively. No software works in isolation. Each software depends on some third-party libraries and/or in-house libraries.
Any good build tool should automatically take care of software dependencies. It should be able to download the dependencies automatically and maintain the versioning. When Ant was released, this feature was not available and developers need to manually download the dependencies and need to maintain their versioning on its own. Though it was later resolved by extending Ant with Ivy.
Gradle automatically downloads all dependencies given in the build file. It determines all the libraries ...
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