On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Paul Merlin <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the yeoman world, generators are published to and fetched from the
> npm registry. We should think about doing just that.

Truth be told, I don't know Yeoman well, but I recognize good stuff when I
see it, and this registry thing is news to me. And that seems to be awesome
news IIUIIC.

If it means that..

<quote>
To create an Apache Polygene project;

$ # Make sure you have NPM installed and working.
$ npm install yeoman-generator-polygene
$ mkdir myproject && cd myproject
$ yo polygene
$ # answer the questions
$ ./gradlew build install

</quote>

... and no messing around with downloads or setting up a build, then we
have lowered the bar quite a bit.

I am optimistic.

Cheers
--
Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java

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