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Can I target a specific SDK using Project Sprouts?

Posted by: Luke Bayes Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Got another great question today on the Project Sprouts list, and the answer is – yes we can!

How can Project Sprouts possibly have that much Awesome?!

Project Sprouts was originally designed (as AsProject) to solve a specific set of problems and was later entirely refactored to become a modular set of libraries that are built on top of Ruby, RubyGems and Rake.

At it’s current core, Sprouts doesn’t know about ActionScript, Flex or Flash. Project Sprouts is a collection of features that make it reasonably simple to wrap Rake around gemerators, compilers, runtimes and libraries.

The concepts we use to make Project Sprouts work are:

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I have Ant, why would I use Project Sprouts?

Posted by: Luke Bayes Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:35:00 GMT

I received a really good question today from a person I respect immensely that is considering Project Sprouts. I’m going to keep him anonymous as I haven’t asked his permission to reprint the question here.

This is something that I suspect lots of people consider when they see Sprouts for the first time. As I was formulating my response, It occurred to me that this should probably be shared more widely than a single email to a single person.

The Question

"In our projects we tend to use Ant and Maven, which seems to work fine so far. I’m not sure what Sprouts could give me. Of course I’m not completely happy with Ant, but will I be with Project Sprouts?"
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