On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, David Pollak <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> >> whatever came of buildr for lift? i haven't stumbled across the answer >> >> googling yet, but i'm still checking... >> > >> > We're not going to support Buildr for Lift. Adding Ruby into the mix is >> a >> > non-starter from my perspective. There is increasing sbt support for >> > Lift-based projects. >> >> thanks for the info. i will go read up on sbt now! >> >> [i saw your older response about disliking the ruby runtime -- i was >> wondering if anybody else had done a buildr branch nevertheless :-) >> e.g. http://github.com/aboisvert/liftweb# (and i wonder if jruby >> mitigates your ruby runtime concerns at all).] >> > > Jruby is yet another download, install, configuration. Making Lift as easy > as possible to get started with and keep going with is the priority. Maven > gives us this. Yes, the one line you have to copy/paste is a bear, but once > you've typed that, things work remarkably well with Maven. Having to > install Jruby, is yet another barrier, yet another thing to support, etc. > <disclaimer> i'm not arguing for use of buildr with lift, just providing information </disclaimer> buildr now has an all-in-one distribution (which uses jruby on the inside) and requires no more install/configuration steps than maven. granted, if you already use maven, it's an extra step. there's also an all-in-one-jar in the works which will make buildr even easier to install and use. this should be available soon after jruby 1.5.0 is out. i use buildr + lift on a regular basis and find it a pleasant alternative to maven. if other people want to use buildr with lift, i'm happy to share and help them out. cheers, alex -- 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.
