Here's a decent start for an ant build. If anyone is interested in helping
flesh out this build file more, let's start up a github project/node and
crank it out.
Note: This will compile a lift project (I only tested with an archetype),
but not package or anything else.
-Josh
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Josh Suereth <joshua.suer...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Sean Reque <seanre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am a newcomer to Scala and Lift, and I plan on trying to figure out
>> how to use either Buildr or Raven, to run Lift, and if I can
>> successfully do so I will try to share my work. If I cannot, I will
>> probably stop pursuing Lift and start looking at other areas of Scala.
>> I say this simply to state you will drive many potential users of Lift
>> away by enforcing the use of Maven without even giving sufficient
>> documentation to allow other build tools to be used. I cannot see any
>> productivity gain from any web framework over other existing
>> competitors that could offset the productivity loss from using Maven.
>>
>
>
> Wow, strong words. I'm wondering what it was about maven that caused this
> productivity loss? So far my shop has not run into this, in fact, we've had
> the opposite vs. Ant. Granted, Raven and Buildr are different beasts.
>
> I posted a blog article earlier on how to use the scala maven
> infrastructure + the maven-ant-tasks to bootstrap a scala project. I think
> the same would be possible if you wanted to use Lift with ant, and (AFAIK)
> easier in Buildr or Raven (as I believe they support Ivy/Maven repo
> materialization directly). Perhaps I'll spend some time and make an ant
> file that you can raven-ify or buildr-ize. What would you need to be able
> to get Buildr or Raven up and working?
>
>
> In the meantime, if maven is keeping you from contributing/working with
> lift, then that's your loss.
>
>
> -Josh
>
>
>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="lift-ant-starter" default="package" xmlns:artifact="urn:maven-artifact-ant">
<description>
This is an example build file for building lift applications
</description>
<property name="scala.version" value="2.7.3"/>
<property name="lift.version" value="1.0"/>
<property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}/src/main/scala"/>
<property name="resources.dir" value="${basedir}/src/main/resources"/>
<property name="test.src.dir" value="${basedir}/src/test/scala"/>
<property name="test.resources.dir" value="${basedir}/src/main/resources"/>
<property name="target.dir" value="${basedir}/target"/>
<property name="target.classes.dir" value="${target.dir}/classes"/>
<property name="target.test-classes.dir" value="${target.dir}/classes"/>
<property name="lib.dir" value="${target.dir}/lib"/>
<property name="maven.ant.tasks.jar" value="${lib.dir}${file.separator}maven-ant-tasks-2.0.9.jar"/>
<property name="maven.ant.tasks.bootstrap.location" value="http://apache.inetbridge.net/maven/binaries/maven-ant-tasks-2.0.9.jar"/>
<available property="maven.ant.tasks.jar.exists" file="${maven.ant.tasks.jar}"/>
<!-- This will download the "latest version" of the maven-ant-tasks if needed -->
<target name="bootstrap.maven.tasks" unless="maven.ant.tasks.jar.exists">
<mkdir dir="${lib.dir}"/>
<get src="${maven.ant.tasks.bootstrap.location}" dest="${maven.ant.tasks.jar}"/>
</target>
<!-- This will initialize all the maven ant tasks -->
<target name="init.maven.tasks" depends="bootstrap.maven.tasks">
<path
id="maven.ant.tasks.classpath"
path="${maven.ant.tasks.jar}" />
<typedef
resource="org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/antlib.xml"
uri="urn:maven-artifact-ant"
classpathref="maven.ant.tasks.classpath" />
</target>
<!-- This bootstraps the scala ant tasks from the maven repository and initializes them -->
<target name="init.scala.tasks" depends="init.maven.tasks">
<artifact:dependencies pathId="scala.tasks.classpath">
<dependency groupId="org.scala-lang" artifactId="scala-compiler" version="${scala.version}" scope="compile" />
<remoteRepository id="scala-tools.repository" url="http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases"; />
</artifact:dependencies>
<taskdef resource="scala/tools/ant/antlib.xml">
<classpath refid="scala.tasks.classpath" />
</taskdef>
</target>
<!-- Resolves the compile-time + test-time dependencies -->
<target name="resolve-dependencies" depends="init.maven.tasks">
<artifact:dependencies pathId="compile.classpath" >
<dependency groupId="org.scala-lang" artifactId="scala-library" version="${scala.version}" scope="compile" />
<dependency groupId="net.liftweb" artifactId="lift-util" version="${lift.version}" scope="compile" />
<dependency groupId="net.liftweb" artifactId="lift-webkit" version="${lift.version}" scope="compile" />
<dependency groupId="net.liftweb" artifactId="lift-mapper" version="${lift.version}" scope="compile" />
<remoteRepository id="scala-tools.repository" url="http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases"; />
</artifact:dependencies>
<artifact:dependencies pathId="test.classpath" >
<dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.5" scope="test" />
<remoteRepository id="scala-tools.repository" url="http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases"; />
</artifact:dependencies>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="resolve-dependencies,init.scala.tasks" description="compiles the source code">
<mkdir dir="${target.classes.dir}"/>
<scalac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${target.classes.dir}" classpathref="compile.classpath" force="changed">
<include name="**/*.scala" />
<include name="**/*.java" />
</scalac>
</target>
<target name="test-compile" depends="compile" description="compiles the test code">
<path id="test.classpath.full">
<path refid="compile.classpath"/>
<path refid="test.classpath"/>
</path>
<mkdir dir="${target.test-classes.dir}"/>
<scalac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${target.test-classes.dir}" classpathref="test.classpath.full" force="changed">
<include name="**/*.scala" />
<include name="**/*.java" />
</scalac>
</target>
<target name="test" depends="test-compile" description="runs the unit tests for this application">
</target>
<target name="package" depends="test" description="description">
</target>
<target name="clean" description="Cleans the project">
<delete dir="${target.dir}"/>
</target>
</project>
