I am just going to repeat my reply from google+ here: If you want to encourage contributions from the community, you should work on lowering the barriers to entry. Pick standard tools that work on a variety of platforms.
What went wrong with the conversion to gradle? Why do you need some obscure build system where first sentence on the install page is "As of September 2014, alas, Pants is not something you can just install and use." BTW: I am a linux user, but I still think you should go for a more standard build tool. /Rene Den fredag den 17. oktober 2014 12.06.28 UTC+2 skrev Thomas Broyer: > > > Would it be a blocker if you had to use a VM (VirtualBox or boot2docker) > to be able to contribute to GWT (because build tools would only work on > Linux or OS X) ? > You'd still be able to use Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA to develop, outside > the VM, but actually building the project to produce JAR files would > require Linux (running in a VM). > > On the other hand, all you'd have to do to get things working would be to > download the image with everything preinstalled (and possibly call a script > too bootstrap the dev environment), with no other requirement on your > machine than having VirtualBox (or boot2docker; maybe Vagrant) > > Just to have an idea if we should rule out Pants as a build tool or not > (Pants might support Windows in the future though). > > I'm thinking that maybe we should try to come up with Docker images and/or > Vagrantfile anyway to make things easier for new contributors, whether > they're using Windows, Linux or OS X. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/e627ab7e-6691-44f5-a065-845b08044c89%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
