I must say, I have not met a build system (besides automake) that exceeded make in complexity. The amount of funny exceptions to rules is astounding. I had far less trouble learning maven (in all its complexity)
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Alexy Khrabrov <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the topic seems to have morphed into learning Scala and Lift by > immersion in a day, as a recent Scala convert, I can't begin to > emphasize how important it is to have the build infrastructure all > done in a simple way to let novices focus on Scala. Lift is a good > example where you have no choice and just follow magic Maven > incantations. Another is Processing in Scala, where you can just do > small sketches. If the assumption is that it is the Java crowd which > comes to JVM mostly, it doesn't bootstrap non-JVM folks like those > coming from Ruby and Haskell/OCaml. So I'm glad David covers the > build systems in his book; there should really be an easier way to > begin without making choices between Maven, SBT, Buildr, Ant, etc.! > Nothing more complex than a good old command line and a Makefile in > the same directory... Ideally SBT becomes a part of Scala and you'll > have a --make option, or something like that. > > Cheers, > Alexy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
