Re: [jgit-dev] Buck based build system for JGit?

[Sascha Vogt <funkyfish@xxxxxxx>]

Am 18.10.13 17:40, schrieb Shawn Pearce:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Sascha Vogt <FunkyFish@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Also, there might be a few devs out there working on Windows...
>
> Buck partially works on Windows, and FaceBook is continuing to improve
> support there. Since I don't have a Windows system anywhere I can't
> test this myself. The tricky part is making sure genrules are
> portable. They mostly aren't, the Gerrit genrules are really not
> portable. We haven't even tried.
That's good news (on the Buck front). Yes - the one time I had to 
localbuild Gerrit was kind of a PITA. Had to install an Ubuntu VM and 
get Buck running (which was not that straight forward as I had hoped it 
would be)

> Notice I didn't propose killing Maven, Maven for all its shortcomings
> does work on Windows, and does have Tycho to support P2. Two important
> facets for JGit that Buck does not do, or does not do as well.
Hence the "Also, ..." - that was just to add the missing Windows support 
to the list of missing things in Buck (in addition to the P2 / Tycho 
support). Fortunately Matthias came up with a much more complete list ;)

Greetings
-Sascha-