FWIW the all-in-one bundle was there before and Alex coded most if not all of it :)
If I remember correctly, building the all-in-one is supported by a rake task. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org> wrote: > Huya, > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Tammo van Lessen <tvanles...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > First, I got a Buildr talk accepted at ApacheCon EU in Sinsheim, Germany, > > which I held just yesterday. > > congrats! > > > I got a lot of positive feedback, people seem > > to like the buildr idea although it also seems that Maven improved since > > the inception of Buildr and some things are less worse. The most visible > > argument against buildr was, however, that people are used to use Maven > and > > that, if they want to make their project accessible for a broad audience, > > they think they'd need to stick to Maven. > > That does seem to be a common view. > > > I guess Gradle tries to address > > this issue by providing a "gradle-wrapper", which is a small jar file > along > > a shell script that you can include into your project and that will > > bootstrap a gradle installation automatically. I also figured, that still > > many Java developers don't have rubies at hand and don't know how to > easily > > install a gem. > > And one stage, Antoine was working on the "all-in-one" distribution > that essentially bundled a version of jruby with buildr and all it's > dependencies in one easy installer. I wonder if we could work on this > to ease adoption of buildr for the casual user. > > Where I work we use Chef (http://www.opscode.com/chef/) extensively > and they release their tool in "omnibus" editions that are essentially > a complete version of ruby for n-different platforms. They preinstall > the chef gems in the ruby they distribute but they make sure that the > only things that are added to the path are the che executables. I > wonder if this would be a good thing for us to consider? > > > Second, I stumbled upon ThoughtWorks TechRadar [2]. In particular, I > liked > > the first paragraph of the Tools section ;) > > It is kinda neat. Possibly the best thing we can do is to increase > awareness ... I think your approach to giving a talk is a good idea. > > -- > Cheers, > > Peter Donald >
