On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM, David Leangen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Didn't you start a project at some point for a build tool based on drools. > Is that idea dead?
Yeah, more than one. * Avalon Magic became DPML Depot, which is an extension of Ant. Fairly sophisticated, easy to use, but dead in the water and not very well documented. * Silk was in OPS4J, where a Drools (rule-engine) drove the build and all 'plugins' where pulled with OSGi. It never got to 'useful state'. The point is that those were 'general purpose', and the question is whether it is better to use a big, clumsy, inflexible general-purpose build system, which comes with a leaking kitchen-sink (Maven is a good representative of that), or if it is 'smarter' to "do what we need, in a way we understand". Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
