Just wanted to drop a quick note to all the Ant users that Savant 1.5
has been released. Although the version implies that it is compatible
with 1.0, it is a complete rewrite and it adds a number of new
features. In fact, 1.0 has been removed and is no longer really
supported or actively developed. Here's some of the cool new features:
- A new command-line wrapper around Ant
- This provides a cool plugin approach to ant
- Plugins are downloaded during the build
- Plugins are just Ant build scripts
- Greatly simplifies build scripts
- Provides common targets across projects
- You can use the plugins Savant provides or write your own
- Plugins are JAR files downloaded from a Savant repository that
contain Ant build scripts
- There is even a 'plugin' plugin to help you write your own
plugins
- New configuration file (project.xml)
- Terse dependency definitions
- Same support for artifacts, artifact groups, and multiple
dependency sets
- Externalized workflows
- We moved the workflows out of the project files and into your home
directory
- This allows Savant repository servers to change (location/name)
overtime without breaking historical builds
- Uses a convention based approach to determine the correct workflow
to use
- Provides a good set of default workflows
- Better version compatibility and transitive dependency management
- We changed the way transitive dependencies are determined
- Dependencies can now define their compatibility type (major,
minor, patch, etc)
- A simple Savant repository hosted at http://savant.inversoft.org
- This doesn't include all the dependencies from ibiblio, but it has
some good ones
- Savant uses this by default
- Support for Maven2 repositories
You can check out the latest docs and download Savant 1.5 from the
project page at http://code.google.com/p/savant-build (this is
Savant's new home). Feedback, patches, and new committers are welcomed.
If you want to take a look at the source code for 1.5, use the branch
named '1.5' as trunk is being used actively for development of 2.0.
-bp
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