Hi In the last two weeks I spent quite a few hours in using buildr.apache.org to solve build problems and I would like to thanks the developers for their great work! It takes some time, but buildr almost always allowed an elegant, small solution to my problems.
I was working at converting the build infrastructure for http://sourceforge.net/projects/elexis/ to buildr, as I think it would simplify a lot some tasks I want to accomplish in the near future (e.g. generating Debian package, an Eclipse p2 site, unified user documentation). As it consists of about 90 Eclipse packages it proved to be not a trivial task. As my Jenkins CI at http://ngiger.dyndns.org/jenkins/view/2.1.7/job/elexis-2.1.7-Buildr/ proves a lot of needed targets are already generated. I ended up setting up a small project at https://github.com/ngiger/buildr-examples where I solved my troubles getting thinks to work. Quoting from the readme.textile there these are: * antwrap ** simple example of how to use antwrap. Shows effect of :declarative ** example using Buildr.ant ** shows how to define Java properties * izpack ** Howto create an IzPack installer for two java projects ** Uses Buildr.ant to wrap the izpack Ant task * p2site ** Create an eclipse p2site with 2 features (uses buildr4osgi) * wikitext_to_pdf ** Needs fop and an installed eclipse ** Transforms this readme.textile to a pdf ** uses wikitext_to_xslfo ** uses uildr.ant ** tests whether generated zip file really contains the desired PDF file * java_and_scala ** handling a project which contains java and scala files and where java files depend on scala I would appreciate feedback, whether these buildfiles respect the "best practices" for using buildr.apache.org. I am also willing to add one or more of these examples to the https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BUILDR/Buildr+HowTos Please, tell me, which ones you think are worth this effort. Best regards -- Niklaus Giger
