Here's my concerns: * We've already started moving our build into Rake a bit by bit, and the bootstrapping question becomes apparent very quickly. In other words, we need JRuby (or Ruby) to run Buildr/Rake, but need Buildr/Rake to build JRuby. * Our Ant build has been a bitch to maintain, but now that it works pretty much everyone can build out of the box. That's very valuable.
I would guess that Buildr would make our Maven nonsense easier, and maybe even allow us to yank out of our src the libraries that can be directly fetched from Maven (like we have experimented with using Ivy in the past), so that's definitely a bonus. And of course not having to maintain the Ant script is a benefit in any case. I am interested in hearing other opinions. - Charlie On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Antoine Toulme <antoine.tou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi devs, > I would like to contribute a Buildr based build to JRuby. Buildr is a > Rake-based build system that integrates well with Maven repositories, has a > goal-based lifecycle that is very easy to extend and work with. > Buildr works on top of MRI or JRuby. > I recently contributed a build using Buildr for jffi that shows a drastic > reduction of the complexity of the ant build files. > It is currently waiting for review on jira, and there may be more work as my > C skills didn't allow me to finish the C compilation part: > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-4970 > This email is meant to test the waters. Please also note I would work on the > build system on my own as time permits, so I cannot give a firm date to > contribute it. > Any strong objections ? > Thanks, > Antoine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
