[Rails-devel] New build process and installer for Rails 2.0?

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

There was something I did not remember was still to be done before I 
will release an alpha:

I intend to update the build process and suggest for this using gradle 
(http://www.gradle.org).

I compared this to adding apache ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/) and 
stay with the previous ant/eclipse-build.

My strong feeling is that I prefer to make the move to the 
next-generation build tool. Using xml seemed as weird for a build as 
writing Makefiles. And it seems much less restrictive than maven is/was.

I still want to hear if there are any objections, even if it will only 
effect myself as I will be responsible for the rails2.0 build.

The other issue is to use installer to create packages for the different 
operating systems.

Unfortunately I have not found any reasonable non-commercial tool for 
this task. However there are two installer products that provide free 
licenses to OS systems:

Install4j: Requires a link to their page

http://www.ej-technologies.com/buy/install4j/openSource/enter

Installbuilder: No such requirement

http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/open-source-licenses.html?ModPagespeed=noscript

Does anyone of you have an objection or recommendation? If I do hear 
nothing negative I would apply for a free license for Rails for both 
products.