Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland

Re:Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland by merb on Monday September 28, 2015 @05:30PM (#10293351)

i'm loving sbt, but still on projects above > 100 dependencies it gets really really slow to download it, while with gradle (even i dislike it) it is way way faster.

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Re:Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland by eeperson on Monday September 28, 2015 @06:20PM (#10293597)

This is probably SBT's greatest weakness and Gradle's biggest strength, relatively. I've never run in to this personally, probably because I'm use Nexus[1] as a repository cache. My understanding is that the underlying problem is a limitation of the dependency resolution library they use, Ivy[2]. Gradle used to use this but at some point wrote their own dependency resolution library. There are some improvements in recent versions of SBT but you have do a little configuration. See here[3] for more details.

[1] http://www.sonatype.com/nexus/product-overview

[2] http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

[3] https://www.typesafe.com/blog/improved-dependency-management...

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Re:Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland by merb on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:15AM (#10303317)

I also thought of introducing Nexus, but since we are only 3 Devlopers (yet, we searching though) it didn't too much sense. I also I hoped for Nexus 3 (but since I'm waiting over half a year now, we might introduce Nexus 2).

Oh and we also using the Cache, when working on newer sbt projects.

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