Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-18 Thread Patrik Nordwall
I agree, but I would like to add that as described in the migration guide the old 2.2.x akka dist plugin can be used to package akka 2.3.x applications. /Patrik On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Konrad Malawski kt...@typesafe.com wrote: Sure, agreed – feel free to add this requirement to the

Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-18 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi Shawn, the migration guide talks about this briefly, in short the akka-sbt-plugin from 2.2.x works just fine for other versions including 2.3.x, but you are right that we’ll have to expand on deployment documentation. We have planned to work on this later this year, if someone beats us to

Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-18 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi Shawn, one consideration is that Akka (as a toolkit) does not really need all that much special handling. The simplest way is to use akka.Main as the main class and tell native packager to call that with the class name of your application supervisor actor and you’re all set (see here for an

Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-17 Thread Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski
Hi guys, Have you seen the http://www.scala-sbt.org/sbt-native-packager/index.html sbt plugin? The sbt guys are pouring loads of effort into making apps easily packagable using that plugin. So instead of having a custom akka plugin we’d rather recommend that one. I created an issue for linking

Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-17 Thread Shawn
Konrad, I don't see how simply linking to sbt-native-packager helps with the original question. As I mentioned, sbt-native-packager has nothing akka specific about it, whereas akka-sbt-plugin was akka-aware and *did* akka-specific things. What the documentation needs is an example built.sbt or

Re: [akka-user] sbt dist with version 2.3.2

2014-08-17 Thread Konrad Malawski
Sure, agreed – feel free to add this requirement to the issue and we'll get to it eventually (or someone of the community might give a helping hand here). On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Shawn j...@shawntalbert.com wrote: Konrad, I don't see how simply linking to sbt-native-packager helps