Thanks! I've been doing it successfully for a year or so now, so I'm going to avoid changing any part of the process if I can help it for a while! ;)
Cheers, Jon On 3 December 2014 at 21:53, Eric Kolotyluk <eric.koloty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ha ha ha. Very good :-) > > I have published to Maven Central, so I know how daunting this can be at > first. > > If you want to publish to Maven Central I recommend > https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-started-apache-maven-video > > Cheers, Eric > > > On 12/3/2014 11:27 AM, Jon Pretty wrote: > > I can offer you this: > > http://play.textadventures.co.uk/Play.aspx?id=zv-wer8keey6rnhk4am25q > > It's a create-your-own-adventure about my experience of trying to publish > a library to Maven Central. It's a couple of years old now, so the > landscape might have improved a little in patches. > > Jon > > On 3 December 2014 at 19:11, Eric Kolotyluk <eric.koloty...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a good emotional support group for people trying to >> use Maven with Typesafe projects such as Akka and Play? >> >> I was thinking maybe there could a buddy/sponsor system, such as used in >> AA and other self help groups. Maybe there might be group sessions where >> people can talk about their trauma, especially by being constantly >> invalidated by comments such as "you should use the simple build tool SBT, >> cause, well you know, it's simple and easy to use." >> >> Seriously though, is there a community of people who are successfully >> using Maven with Akka an Play projects? I would love to meet you. >> >> I can see why people who have tried Maven naturally think "oh, its' too >> complicated, anyone can write a simple build tool that does what Maven >> does." Clearly they do not appreciate what Maven is or what it does. SBT >> and Gradle are two great examples of projects that attempted to do >> something more simple, but in the end, really don't measure up. >> >> I personally think the Scala community would be been better served if >> more investment was made in developing better Scala build tools within the >> Maven framework. More and better plugins for Scala, Akka, Play, etc. >> Better use of >> >> >> http://books.sonatype.com/mcookbook/reference/sect-scala-script-inline.html >> http://books.sonatype.com/mcookbook/reference/ch03s03.html >> >> I don't know if there is a Scala template for writing Maven plugins (or >> mojos), but there should be. >> >> The more I use SBT, the less I like it. It is not what I consider a >> serious build tool for build engineers, it is a toy or playground for Scala >> hackers who thrive on the abstruse. Don't get me wrong, I love Scala, but >> creating a build tool around .scala files just invites the use of chicken >> tracks and obscure overly concise cleverness that leads to one WTF >> experience after another. *It is actually possible to write Scala code >> that you can reason about,* but it just as easy to write Scala code that >> resembles APL, and reasoning about build engineering was clearly not a >> priority with the designers of SBT. >> >> The Scala-IDE was a really great approach because it leveraged off of an >> existing IDE infrastructure such as Eclipse, rather than trying to write an >> IDE from scratch the way SBT does. I wish the Scala/Typesafe community had >> taken the same approach with build-tools. >> >> - Eric >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "scala-debate" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to scala-debate+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jon Pretty | @propensive > > > -- Jon Pretty | @propensive
