Hey Olivier, For what it's worth, I was able to convert our 2908 lines of xml in a dozen different poms into a 169-line buildfile. Took about a workday. About 100 of those lines are dependencies and I have about as much Ruby experience as a bored college freshman who "checked it out" that weekend the Team Fortress 2 servers crashed.
The docs and examples on buildr.apache.org were pretty much all I needed. Dug into the API docs for a method call or two but our software's architecture makes Jackson Pollack look well-organized. For straightforward project management, buildr was an absolute breeze. So easy, in fact, I thought I was doing it wrong. I'm going to blame maven for that. -- Christopher On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Olivier Lefevre wrote: >> I recommend you try out things and ask questions -- a good way to learn >> (IMO) >> though not necessarily the easiest. > > Asking lots of questions (possibly silly ones) in public in an age where > employers, > colleagues, customers or various firms and software programs deputized by the > above routinely trawl public fora to compile your profile an decide whether > you're > a dunce is not an appealing proposition. Once upon a time it might have been > OK > but this is the age of zero privacy, invasive searches and real-time > violation. This > makes good docs more important than ever. > > -- O.L.
