Anvil gets a bit more generic, replaces vulcan?

[David Dollar]

I just added a few more features to anvil around the types of things it can build, and the things it can use for buildpacks.

You can now do the following:

# build a git repo

$ heroku build https://github.com/ddollar/anvil.git

# build a git repo at a specific commit using a buildpack at a specific branch

$ heroku build https://github.com/ddollar/anvil.git#c0b36a28 -b https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git#stable-tracking

# build a tarball using a shell script

$ heroku build http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.13.tar.gz -b https://raw.github.com/ddollar/vulcan-recipes/master/memcached.sh

[David Dollar]

If you'd like to play with anvil, you can install it using:

$ heroku plugins:install https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-anvil

$ heroku help build

[archaelus]

This is easily the best thing since sliced buildpack and avoids the 10min build timeout that was killing me.

Result: https://github.com/archaelus/heroku-buildpack-otp -- sweet sweet up-to-date erlang binaries.

Cheers,

@archaelus