Greetings all, First, let me say that I am generally happy with buildr. I'm a long-time ruby user and XML hater, so having an alternative to ant/maven is great. I have managed to get most of my build system working, but have several problems/questions. If any of these are answered in the online docs, wiki, jira, or mailing list archives, feel free to just point me in that direction.
1. How to extract a file from an artifact? I need to extract the license file out of some third-party jar artifacts. I can't find any easy way to do that. The best I have come up with is to create a zip task that includes the artifact. Then, turn around and unzip the zip, then unzip the jar. Yuck. 2. How to copy artifact files? This is closely related to #1. My script creates an ISO image. I would like to simply copy some artifacts into the ISO directory, but don't see any way to do it. My workaround is to create a zip containing the full directory structure I want, and then unzipping it into the ISO image. Seems like it should be easier. 3. How to specify a dependency for a package task? Several times, I have wanted to specify that the package task for a project should depend on some other task. In one case, I had a master project and several related projects (which were not buildr subprojects because I couldn't get those to work the way I wanted). I simply wanted to create a 'package' target in the master project, which depends on the package targets of the other projects. I can see how to do this for 'build', but not for 'package'. Kevin
