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. > The more I think about it, the less I like having a jruby script in my path. It is likely to be an issue or maybe not clear to me that it relates to buildr. Could we use that -S parameter ? buildr -S gem install stuff. This way I know for certain I am installing something in my buildr tool. It's really more work for you, I would feel better with it though. You be the judge. > > >> 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. > > alex >
