Daniel Spiewak wrote on 07/29/2009 06:26 PM:
I think we mention buildr --help somewhere in the document (or maybe it's
in
the install guide). I think that listing the available tasks would just
add
extra noise though. You were the one who wanted to trim things down!
:-)
You've got me there :)
What about mentioning "buildr -T"? I could imagine mentioning this as a
tip in the section about custom tasks, because the natural question when
reading about custom tasks would be "what tasks are already available,
and what's left to me?"
Ok, I can see that fitting fairly nicely. I'll add it when I get the
chance.
Well, I just noticed that right now (in your quickstart branch) there's
again the explanation how archives (.zip) can be downloaded and that/how
artifacts are extracted from the downloaded file. IIRC I had replaced
this by a tip mentioning, that buildr provides several methods for
retrieving artifacts. I'd prefer a general tip that buildr can do a lot
more that what's described in the quickstart and refer to the
appropriate documentation page.
I disagree, that's why I re-added the section you removed. :-) I think the
fact that Buildr can download and extract artifacts automagically from zip
files is really a huge selling point, particularly for people like me who
had always been skeptical about Maven because of the restricting nature of
its repositories.
forgive my ignorance, but how exactly does buildr do that? i can see
that you can download a file from a given url, but where is the code
that digs into a zip to extract a jar from it?
ittay
We could add a quick line that mentions how powerful the artifact task is
and then links to the detailed docs. That would cover the "artifact from
local jar" case, but I think we really need to leave the downloading zip
archive bit as it stands.
Is it possible that I'm just looking at the wrong quickstart? What's the
leading repo/branch?
I think you're probably on the right branch. The current HEAD of the
quickstart development is at git://github.com/djspiewak/buildr.git /
quickstart. Feel free to pull from this branch, make changes, etc. Before
I merge back into trunk/, I'll grab any of your changes and take them along
with me.
Daniel
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