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

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Brown <nix at davidb.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:52:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> The author has been building it with itself for many versions.  I
> suppose it would be possible to create a separate build environment to
> build it with, but nobody does this.

OK, then that’s a reasonable argument not to build from source for me.

Thanks,
Ludo’.