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Building A Better Build: Our Transition From Ant To SBT

by metaprinter on 10/11/14, 12:09 AM with 7 comments

• by ddispaltro on 10/11/14, 3:14 AM

  It's taken me a while to understand all the hieroglyphics, but it really is a solid build system. Take a look at a complex example of cross compiling for scala.js, a single code base, with shared classes [1], for multiple versions of Scala.

  My biggest complaint early on, was the Ivy resolver. Maven "pom" style packages didn't work too well. I also know there was talk of using gradle's resolution system, which was rewrote long ago. Not sure if that went anywhere.

  I think the IDE story will simplify, and work better, when sbt supports sbt-server. The work is being done here [2]. However, it is much better in IDEA 14 and the newest Scala plugin.

  [1] https://github.com/w3c/banana-rdf/blob/master/project/build....

  [2] https://github.com/sbt/sbt-remote-control