Nice.   These kinds of small projects is pretty much how I test/debug when
questions are asked on this list (and sometimes on my own projects).

As to which are good/interesting, I'd suggest adding "Not finding what you
want?  Take a look at [your github repo] ... for more examples." at the
bottom of the How-To page and let people do the surfing.

alex

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Niklaus Giger <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi
>
> In the last two weeks I spent quite a few hours in using buildr.apache.orgto
> solve build problems and I would like to thanks the developers for their
> great
> work! It takes some time, but buildr almost always allowed an elegant,
> small
> solution to my problems.
>
> I was working at converting the build infrastructure for
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/elexis/
> to buildr, as I think it would simplify a lot some tasks I want to
> accomplish
> in the near future (e.g. generating Debian package, an Eclipse p2 site,
> unified
> user documentation). As it consists of about 90 Eclipse packages it proved
> to
> be not a trivial task.
> As my Jenkins CI at
> http://ngiger.dyndns.org/jenkins/view/2.1.7/job/elexis-2.1.7-Buildr/
> proves a lot of needed targets are already generated.
>
> I ended up setting up a small project at
> https://github.com/ngiger/buildr-examples
> where I solved my troubles getting thinks to work. Quoting from the
> readme.textile there these are:
>
> * antwrap
> ** simple example of how to use antwrap. Shows effect of :declarative
> ** example using Buildr.ant
> ** shows how to define Java properties
> * izpack
> ** Howto create an IzPack installer for two java projects
> ** Uses Buildr.ant to wrap the izpack Ant task
> * p2site
> ** Create an eclipse p2site with 2 features (uses buildr4osgi)
> * wikitext_to_pdf
> ** Needs fop and an installed eclipse
> ** Transforms this readme.textile to a pdf
> ** uses wikitext_to_xslfo
> ** uses uildr.ant
> ** tests whether generated zip file really contains the desired PDF file
> * java_and_scala
> ** handling a project which contains java and scala files and where java
> files
> depend on scala
>
> I would appreciate feedback, whether these buildfiles respect the "best
> practices" for using buildr.apache.org. I am also willing to add one or
> more
> of these examples to the
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BUILDR/Buildr+HowTos
> Please, tell me, which ones you think are worth this effort.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Niklaus Giger
>

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