On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:43, Alex Boisvert <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Antoine Toulme <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I have been working a bit with the standalone distrib of Buildr mounted on
>> JRuby and I liked it so far, I think it offers a very simple way to have
>> buildr around.
>>
>
> Good to hear.
>
> I had the need to install gems on that jruby installation and my quick fix
>> was to edit the buildr executable, remove the mention of _buildr, run:
>> buildr gem install mygem
>>
>
> That's the kind of feedback I was hoping for :)
>
>
>> Two questions:
>> 1. Can we have a way to install Buildr gems as part of Buildr in an easy
>> way?
>>
>
> Yes, we could leave the original jruby executable/scripts in the distro for
> that purpose.
>
Indeed.

>
>
>> 2. Can we prepackage Buildr with one or more plugins and distribute it
>> that
>> way ? Either on apache.org or at the plugin website ? If yes, what would
>> be
>> the instructions to do that ?
>>
>
> Possible but I'd personally rather do #1.   Sooner or later you want to add
> another plugin and I'd rather avoid the combinational explosion of distros.
>
After giving it some more thought, I think in that case, such a distro would
not be buildr anymore. Buildr would be bundled in there, but the distro
would be something else.
Do you mind sharing how you bundled jruby with buildr ? Do you have a script
for that ?

Thanks,

Antoine

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