Why 2 app-engine gradle plugin?

[renaudcerrato]

Just stumbled upon:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/test-and-deploy-to-Google-App-Engine-with-the-new-Maven-and-Gradle-plugins.html

and this:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/app-gradle-plugin

What's the point to maintain 2 plugins? Why?

[loosebazooka]

The new plugin uses gcloud as the underlying tool to deploy. The gradle-appengine-plugin uses appcfg from the appengine java sdk, which is older and doesn't support some of the new features.

[loosebazooka]

I would recommend trying the new plugin as we will eventually want everyone using it.

[patflynn]

@loosebazooka can we update the README to this plugin to direct non Android Studio users to use the app-gradle-plugin?