looking for suggestions on which maven project to port to buildr

[Paul Kramer <kr...@me.com>]

Hello,

I'm going to be diving into buildr this week and once I play around with it and get a feel for what it can do, I'm going to write up a blog entry on it. What I want to do is help people see alternatives to Ant and Maven. When I first saw Ant, I thought, interesting a nice step forward and two backwards. Then came Maven and I thought WTF. And then came Maven2 and I thought OMG WTF. And now Maven3 is upon us.

I'm going to port an open source java project from maven to buildr and then blog about the effort, results, and long-term benefits.

Are there any particular java projects you would suggest as a candidate for this build system port?

Regards -- Kramer
http://www.qbalsoftware.com

Re: looking for suggestions on which maven project to port to buildr

[Paul Kramer <kr...@me.com>]

Cool I'll do a port from Ant+Ivy and another from Maven. I'll go ahead and start on the cassandra build system port. If someone has a maven candidate, I'll take a look at that too.

My religion is: every single developer, or person that comes in contact with the build system,  "they must easily able to run , maintain and extend it." 

Most of the time the problem is with the implementation of the build system not the build tool. But some build tools make it very hard to deploy a simplified build system.

Kramer

On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Alex Boisvert wrote:

> I don't have a particular affinity to the project, but you might find
> Cassandra <http://github.com/apache/cassandra>'s ant + ivy build system a
> good showcase / workout.
> 
> I'm probably stating the obvious but people can be just as religious about
> their build system as their programming language.   And I'm not excluding
> myself here :)
> 
> alex
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Paul Kramer <kr...@me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm going to be diving into buildr this week and once I play around with it
>> and get a feel for what it can do, I'm going to write up a blog entry on it.
>> What I want to do is help people see alternatives to Ant and Maven. When I
>> first saw Ant, I thought, interesting a nice step forward and two backwards.
>> Then came Maven and I thought WTF. And then came Maven2 and I thought OMG
>> WTF. And now Maven3 is upon us.
>> 
>> I'm going to port an open source java project from maven to buildr and then
>> blog about the effort, results, and long-term benefits.
>> 
>> Are there any particular java projects you would suggest as a candidate for
>> this build system port?
>> 
>> Regards -- Kramer
>> http://www.qbalsoftware.com
>> 

Re: looking for suggestions on which maven project to port to buildr

[Alex Boisvert <al...@gmail.com>]

I don't have a particular affinity to the project, but you might find
Cassandra <http://github.com/apache/cassandra>'s ant + ivy build system a
good showcase / workout.

I'm probably stating the obvious but people can be just as religious about
their build system as their programming language.   And I'm not excluding
myself here :)

alex

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Paul Kramer <kr...@me.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm going to be diving into buildr this week and once I play around with it
> and get a feel for what it can do, I'm going to write up a blog entry on it.
> What I want to do is help people see alternatives to Ant and Maven. When I
> first saw Ant, I thought, interesting a nice step forward and two backwards.
> Then came Maven and I thought WTF. And then came Maven2 and I thought OMG
> WTF. And now Maven3 is upon us.
>
> I'm going to port an open source java project from maven to buildr and then
> blog about the effort, results, and long-term benefits.
>
> Are there any particular java projects you would suggest as a candidate for
> this build system port?
>
> Regards -- Kramer
> http://www.qbalsoftware.com
>