Category Archives: Savant

Dependency Management Standardization

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

David Lloyd and I are working on getting some standards together for dependency management. We are hoping that this will help unify projects and provide the ability for all the different projects to use the same repositories. Please join us … Continue reading →

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Savant command-line tool and plugins are almost ready

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Been working this week on Savant 2.0. My first thought when I started writing Savant 2.0 was to write a complete replacement for both Maven and Ant that used Groovy and allowed for both a plugin model as well as … Continue reading →

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Google Code

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Dan Moore posted about my Google Projects idea and apparently Google is already doing this. It’s called Google Code and is available at http://code.google.com. Naturally I needed to see what they had done with it. First off they decided not … Continue reading →

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Configuration vs. convention

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

My buddy Dave Thomas has an interesting blog entry concerning convention vs. configuration. I’ve given it a considerable amount of thought today because it is something that hits you square in the face when switching between frameworks and languages (i.e. … Continue reading →

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Savant dialect dependencies

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I just finished a large refactoring of the Savant dialect code in order to add support for dialect dependencies. Since it is always ideal to break down pieces of functionality into logical units and then introduce well defined dependencies, I … Continue reading →

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