Petr Kozelka's blog

Next version of “buildozer” is out.
Buildozer is a tool for simplifying transitive builds on modules with SNAPSHOT dependencies. It especially simplifies propagation of code changes from changed module(s) to those depending on them, while skipping builds of unaffected ones.

Installation instructions are available here. Project main web is http://buildbox.sf.net/buildozer.

Changes since version 1.0.0-alpha-4

New features:

• FAILED modules are not rebuilt unless changed (or their dependencies changed)
• added command “doall” pretending that all modules have changed = full rebuild

Fixes:

• stanalone jar installer – fixed NPE in artifact downloading
• return nonzero exit code on failure

Improvements:

• log file and failure indicator stored in subdir of repository’s installation target
• added option –version, both in standard and in xml format
• simplified the way of listing installed artifact of a module (not using special mojo on mvn commandline)

Feedback

Users can share their experience

• on Buildbox Google Group
• on the facebook Buildozer group

or contribute any other way – some hints are here.

In addition to the buildbox project at sourceforge, I just created parallel one at a http://buildbox.googlecode.com. While SourceForge provides a lot of useful options and services, like shell access, web site with storage etc., their wiki service is rarely functional and I had no more time to fight it. Plus the issue tracker at SourceForge is a crappy thing too, so I decided to give a chance to Google’s hosting service, currently only for wiki and issue-tracking purposes.

Very good news today: the internal repository of the buildbox project is now automatically rsynced to Maven Central Repository. This gives me an option to release artifacts in a way that allows others to use them without any special configuration in Maven.
I am going to publish only releases that make sense, so there will not be new versions from me every second day. I am just happy that I have a way to publish my artifacts
To see the buildbox artifacts, click here.