could you be more specific and list these things Buildr does not satisfy out of the box? this could be a good source of inspiration for future improvements.
Alexis On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > In principle, I agree that the POM converter should just work. There's > a > > > lot of stuff that Maven does that Buildr doesn't immediately satisfy, > > What do you mean, do you have an example for this? > > > In general, anything which requires a Maven plugin is unsatisfiable in > Buildr out of the box. That's not to say that you can't write a little bit > of Ruby to handle it for you, but it's not as immediate as in Maven > (obviously, because the plugin was designed for Maven and not Buildr). For > example, things like java.net artifact installation. Also, Maven does > things like downloading source (when available) and even checking out a > project from an SCM, building it and installing into your local repo. > Again, Buildr is *capable* of all these things, but that doesn't mean it > fully supports them out of the box. > > Daniel >
