Hi, I'd be interested in packaging sbt in debian, and I saw the debian bug #639910 [1] and this [email protected] thread [2] . I guess there's not much progress, but I'm asking in case someone is active on that. Here is a summary of what I understood so far : a) to build sbt, you need sbt b) sbt [may] downloads components online when being used c) sbt upstream does not provide nor will support alternate build process (make, ant, whatever) d) it seems difficult to provide a standalone tarball of a given version of sbt (David M. Lee) Is each point [still] correct ?
I saw the proposition of Mehdi to ask the sbt upstream to propose a source tarball of sbt and include a standalone version of sbt, but I didn't see any answer (except if d) was one) Also I wanted to ask Mehdi, if there wasn't another way by putting sbt in nonfree. Or maybe have a sbt-bootstrap in nonfree, and a sbt in main that would be built from nonfree. Though, for sbt-bootstrap, we would need a self contained sbt (no internet download), right ? Any help will be welcome, Thanks and sorry for unburying such a hateful topic :) F. 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639910 2: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/simple-build-tool/bFaUvjn_j60
