I don't have a particular affinity to the project, but you might find Cassandra <http://github.com/apache/cassandra>'s ant + ivy build system a good showcase / workout.
I'm probably stating the obvious but people can be just as religious about their build system as their programming language. And I'm not excluding myself here :) alex On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Paul Kramer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to be diving into buildr this week and once I play around with it > and get a feel for what it can do, I'm going to write up a blog entry on it. > What I want to do is help people see alternatives to Ant and Maven. When I > first saw Ant, I thought, interesting a nice step forward and two backwards. > Then came Maven and I thought WTF. And then came Maven2 and I thought OMG > WTF. And now Maven3 is upon us. > > I'm going to port an open source java project from maven to buildr and then > blog about the effort, results, and long-term benefits. > > Are there any particular java projects you would suggest as a candidate for > this build system port? > > Regards -- Kramer > http://www.qbalsoftware.com >
