Re: [Fab-user] Looking for ant replacement

[Jarek Zgoda]

I need a tool for deployment, not for building (applications are
already built, either as war files or debs), so the building machinery
of ant is not needed in my case.

Anyway, I'll give fabric a try next time.

2008/7/24 Christian Vest Hansen <address@hidden>:
> It's not a replacement for ant, but it can add to the tool chain. For
> instance, you can build the war file with ant, and then upload and
> deploy it with fabric.
>
> I use it this way with Maven on a number of projects.
>
> Fabric is imparative remote automation, as oppose to meta-data driven
> tools like Maven. So you will find yourself programming fabric instead
> of configuring it. Pretty much like how you would write your ant
> scripts.
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jarek Zgoda <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Currently I'm using ant, mostly for deployment purposes (build release
>> tarballs, copy to remote machines, unpack, restart daemons). My
>> projects are in Python (Django) and Java and I found writing
>> buildfiles for ant rather tedious, but remote deployment of non-python
>> apps is far easier with ant than with (say) Paver. As I am mostly
>> Python developer, I'm looking for replacement. I already tried Paver,
>> but it's not well suited for deploying war files or the like.
>>
>> Is Fabric right tool to replace ant in my toolbox?
>>
>> --
>> Jarek Zgoda
>> http://zgodowie.org/
>>
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> Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
> Christian Vest Hansen.
>



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Jarek Zgoda
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