On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Thomas Finneid wrote: > One thought, both the scala team and the sbt team produces .deb > packages, can they be uploaded as final distribution packages, or even > used as the the toolchain package on the CI system?
No, of course absolutely not. > > > So to build on CI system, is it allowed to preconfigure it manually with > > > the > > > newest sbt version, i.e. version 1.x, from a tarball download? > > > > No. > > Ok? Do I understand it correctly that everything has to be built from > scratch and the build system can only to be configured using debian > packages? Exactly. > How can one introduce new things into the system for which > there is no preexisting package or toolchain? Not at all. Some cross-compiling things to get things bootstrapped is often possible, for C stuff at least. But otherwise… not normally, and especially not if there’s another way to do it, no matter how painful it may be. Recommended reading: https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf This is even more recommended as I understand that Scala is some sort of compiler? bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg ************************************************* **!!! NEU !!!** Mit der **tarent Academy** bieten wir ab sofort auch Trainings und Schulungen in den Bereichen Softwareentwicklung, Agiles Arbeiten und Zukunftstechnologien an. Besuchen Sie uns auf [www.tarent.de/academy](http://www.tarent.de/academy). Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Kontakt. *************************************************
