Forgot to send this to the list earlier, I published a template project, http://github.com/aboisvert/lift-template
which I use as basis for building Lift projects. (Haven't updated to 2.0-SNAPSHOT yet but should only be a matter of changing a few version numbers). alex On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote: > Alex, > > Can I suggest you distill your own learning onto the wiki? > > Cheers, Tim > > On 22 Jan 2010, at 01:51, Alex Boisvert wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, David Pollak < > feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> 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 lift...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
