JBang Extension for bld

[ethauvin]

Just wanted to let the JBang community know that we've released the first version of the JBang Extension for bld, a pure Java build tool for developers who don't like dealing with build tools.

[maxandersen]

nice! so its like maven-plugin and gradle-plugin enabling use of jbang from that ecosystem. Good stuff.

Would be cool to have it added to https://www.jbang.dev/download/ as an option. Want to make a PR to get it started on https://github.com/jbangdev/jbang.dev/blob/main/content/download.html ?

[ethauvin]

nice! so its like maven-plugin and gradle-plugin enabling use of jbang from that ecosystem. Good stuff.

Thanks :-)

Would be cool to have it added to https://www.jbang.dev/download/ as an option. Want to make a PR to get it started on https://github.com/jbangdev/jbang.dev/blob/main/content/download.html ?

The one thing it doesn't do is download JBang. One of the philosophy being bld, is that we don't do anything automatically in the background, hence no download. I will update the documentation to clarify, though.

[maxandersen]

so users need to bring their external tools in other ways? no auto download of different java runtimes neihter ?

but sure - totally fair to have that rule and yes, worth mentioning it in docs.

[ethauvin]

so users need to bring their external tools in other ways? no auto download of different java runtimes neihter ?

Yes, generally, external tools are installed manually for maximum flexibility, and we provide options to select custom locations. Being a purely Java-based system, the assumption is that a flavor of Java is already installed.

We do also document running bld using JBang.

but sure - totally fair to have that rule and yes, worth mentioning it in docs.

Done.