On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Antoine Toulme <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:43, Alex Boisvert <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Antoine Toulme 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>> 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 ?
>

I don't have a script yet;  I just whipped it out manually.

I'll add it to Buildr's rakefile now(ish).

alex

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