On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 07:02, Thomas Koch <
thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I've been asked: I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and won't
> continue working on SBT Debian packaging until after easter holidays.
>
> However in general I'd strongly suggest that packaging of SBT for a
> distribution is only continued, if upstream can be convinced to support a
> build path without a previous SBT binary, e.g.:
>
> 1. build a minimal SBT without SBT
> 2. build the full SBT with the minimal SBT from 1.
>
> I spent a full week to compile SBT without SBT (and learning more about Scala
> and SBT). Any third party scripts to bootstrap SBT could break at any time and
> require a lot of work to fix, if upstream does not support this build
> strategy.
>
> "Initial attempt to support build without sbt":
>
https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/pull/308
I'm not quite understanding the issue here. What is the policy in