Goals/Guidelines for xsbt ===== As usual: - Immutable interfaces - Typesafe - Robust, flexible API Task engine - method tasks will be normal tasks that pull the command line from a CommandLine task - possibly have per task logging, including configuration (e.g. 'debug compile') - unnamed tasks log to parent task - in parallel, optionally one task always logging - Have Interfaces subproject that depends on no other project and defines interfaces in package xsbti. They are written in Java and cannot refer to Scala classes (compileOrder = JavaThenScala). These interfaces are loaded by the root loader and can be used to pass objects across ClassLoader boundaries. - launcher/main interface is not static (no system properties!) - simple, well-defined ClassLoaders - use Exceptions instead of Option/Either - every component gets its own subproject - can use any version of compiler/Scala that is source compatible - Logger passed by implicit parameter - build xsbt using normal cross-build conventions - compiler: raw interface (no dependency analysis) or with dependency analysis - compiler: can specify scala-library.jar and scala-compiler.jar + version instead of retrieving the ClassLoader - minimal dependence on main xsbt logger from subcomponents: use thin interface for subcomponents and implement interface in separate files in main xsbt Dependency Management - resolvers are completely defined in project definition (use Resolver.withDefaultResolvers) - configurations completely defined within project (use ModuleConfiguration.configurations) Launcher - see launch.specification - boot interface contains static final int version = N that main xsbt can use to check if it can be loaded by that version (a lower bound check) - main xsbt has static final int version = N that boot can use to check if it can load that version (a lower bound check)