Alex, rather than using lambdas, could you use tasks ? I think there would be a lost of interest in using rake here, in particular when downloading jruby.
Would it also be possible to use Maven to download JRuby rather than using an explicit URL ? Maven Central should have JRuby around. Thanks, Antoine On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:32, Antoine Toulme <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 >> > >
