1. Jul 1st, 2009

    Why do you use Buildr?

    Q: Why use Buildr instead of Ant or Maven?

    Daniel Spiewak:

    If you think about it, the question isn’t “Why use Buildr?”, it’s really “Why use anything else?” The advantages afforded by Buildr are so substantial, I really can’t see myself going with any other tool, at least not when I have a choice.

    Matthieu:

    We used to rely on Ant, with a fairly extensive set of scripts. It worked but was expensive to maintain. The biggest mistake afterward was to migrate to Maven2. I could write pages of rants explaining all the problems we ran into and we still ended up with thousands of lines of XML.

    unknown:

    With BuildR, your build files are written in a real language (you can use variables, methods, loops, containers), which is needed because building a product requires custom logic (code). The myth that Maven tries to sell is that it is all just declaring what you wants (via properties) and a “maven” creates everything for you. You need your own code.

    Tristan Juricek:

    That’s still the strongest sell: it builds everything I need, and as I’ve needed more, I just got things working without a lot of fuss.

    Martin Grotzke:

    The positive side effect for me as a java user is that I learn a little ruby, and that’s easy but lots of fun… :-)

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    1. Jul 1st, 2009

      Scott Markwell

      Ok, the web is now eating it self for me. A question I put on stack overflow has now come full circle by appearing in my RSS reader on a blog I follow.

    2. Jul 1st, 2009

      Assaf

      Thanks for asking that question. I really like the response that flowed from it, adding them to the web site.

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