... and for a possible alternative to Gant

I'm list whoring again... from the groovy-user list, just announced

http://www.gradle.org

Gradle is a build system which provides:

• Flexible general purpose build tool like Ant.
• Switchable, build-by-convention frameworks a la Maven. But without lock in
  
• Support for multi-project builds.
• Powerful dependency management (based on Apache Ivy).
• Full support for your existing Maven or Ivy repository infrastructure
• Optional support for transitive dependency management without the need for remote repositories and pom.xml or ivy.xml files.
• Ant tasks as first class citizens.
• A wrapper to run Gradle builds on machines where Gradle is not installed (e.g. continuous integration server)
• Groovy build scripts.

Has the usual userguide and docs for this new v2.0 release.

The obvious question.. how does it compare to Gant, is visited here