[Nix-dev] Re: Simple build tool for scala.

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from ludo's message of Sat May 08 22:52:36 +0200 2010:
> Hi,
> 
> David Brown <nix at davidb.org> writes:
> 
> > Building the launcher itself from source isn't commonly done,
> > especially since sbt's build system uses sbt.
> 
> Isn’t there a way to bootstrap it?  I would find it nicer to build from
> source, so the relation between the source and binary is formally
> established.

Very often there is. But it takes much more time to package a package
then. In the case of Eclipse this would take weeks.

In the thinking rock case you have to create a missing file using
netbeans first. I will try to do so for about one hour. If I can't do it
I'll use the binary and remove the JRE stuff.

The old binary not containing JRE is gone :-(

So I'd say distributing binaries for Java and Scala apps is fine if
bootstrapping from source means a lot of work. I can't judge this
particular case at the moment. I hope its easy here :)

Marc Weber