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

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2014-02-05 04:45, Stefan Frey wrote:
> 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 question is, will I still be able to build the dev tree in eclipse?

I feel I'm only started on the hugely hard, steep learning curve to be
able to safely write code for this project at all, and it seems like
everytime I turn around, someone wants to make a change like this one
which may be trivial for them but is likely a show stopper for me and
other new devs.




> 
> 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.
> 
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