There is a significant investment in sbt and maven - and they are not at all likely to be going away. A third build tool? Note that there is also the perspective of building within an IDE - which actually works presently for sbt and with a little bit of tweaking with maven as well.
2015-02-02 16:25 GMT-08:00 Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>: > Does anyone here have experience with Pants > <http://pantsbuild.github.io/index.html> or interest in trying to build > Spark with it? > > Pants has an interesting story. It was born at Twitter to help them build > their Scala, Java, and Python projects as several independent components in > one monolithic repo. (It was inspired by a similar build tool at Google > called blaze.) The mix of languages and sub-projects at Twitter seems > similar to the breakdown we have in Spark. > > Pants has an interesting take on how a build system should work, and > Twitter and Foursquare (who use Pants as their primary build tool) claim it > helps enforce better build hygiene and maintainability. > > Some relevant talks: > > - Building Scala Hygienically with Pants > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0> > - The Pants Build Tool at Twitter > < > https://engineering.twitter.com/university/videos/the-pants-build-tool-at-twitter > > > - Getting Started with the Pants Build System: Why Pants? > < > https://engineering.twitter.com/university/videos/getting-started-with-the-pants-build-system-why-pants > > > > At some point I may take a shot at converting Spark to use Pants as an > experiment and just see what it’s like. > > Nick > >
