[Google Code]: http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool [Northeast Scala Symposium]: http://www.nescala.org/2011/ [documentation]: https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki [Setup]: https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Setup [video of a demo]: http://vimeo.com/20263617 # sbt 0.10 This is the 0.10.x series of sbt. See [Setup] for getting started with the latest binary release or see below to build from source. The previous stable release of sbt was 0.7.7, which was hosted on [Google Code]. There is a [video of a demo] given at the [Northeast Scala Symposium] that gives a brief introduction to the concepts in sbt 0.9 and later. Note that the demo was based on 0.9.0 and things have changed since then. See the [documentation] for current information. # Build from source To build from source, get the latest stable version of sbt 0.10.x (see [Setup]) and get the code. $ git clone git://github.com/harrah/xsbt.git $ cd xsbt The initial branch is the development branch 0.10, which contains the latest code for the 0.10.x series. The latest tag for 0.10.x is 0.10.1: $ git checkout v0.10.1 To build the launcher, publish all components locally, and build API and SXR documentation: $ sbt build-all The individual commands are $ sbt publish-local proguard sxr doc Copy your stable ~/bin/sbt script to ~/bin/xsbt and change it to use the launcher at: /target/sbt-launch-0.10.1.jar If using the 0.10 development branch, the launcher is at: /target/sbt-launch-0.10.2-SNAPSHOT.jar ## Modifying sbt When developing sbt itself, there is no need to run `build-all`, since this generates documentation as well. For the fastest turnaround time for checking compilation only, run `compile`. To use your modified version of sbt in a project locally, run `publish-local`. If you have modified the launcher, also run `proguard`. After each `publish-local`, clean the `project/boot/` directory in the project in which you want to use the locally built sbt. Alternatively, if sbt is running and the launcher hasn't changed, run `reboot full` to have sbt do this for you. If a project has `project/build.properties` defined, either delete the file or change `sbt.version` to `0.10.2-SNAPSHOT`.