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 >
