[ANNOUNCE] sbt 1.0 roadmap and sbt 1.0.0-M5

[eugene yokota]

Howdy,

We posted sbt 1.0 roadmap on Lightbend Tech Hub blog - http://developer.lightbend.com/blog/2017-04-18-sbt-1-0-roadmap-and-beta1/

sbt 1.0.0-M5 is now available. This is the first beta release of sbt 1.0.

sbt 1.0 is going to be Scala 2.12 + Zinc 1 + server as outlined in the post.

For the roadmap, please provide your feedback on this thread: https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/asking-for-your-feedback-on-sbt-scala-center-announcement/738.

If you find any issues with sbt 1.0.0-M5, please report on Github issue.

-sbt team

[Anton Kulaga]

You mentioned "Some more ambitious aspects of plans for 1.0 have been postponed or scaled back to make 1.0 achievable soon. (For example, cached compilation and replacing Ivy)".

But why was it pushed back? There is a better alternative to ivy, called coursier ( https://github.com/coursier/coursier ), you can just get rid of ivy and put cousier inside by default.

[Seth Tisue]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Anton Kulaga <anton...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You mentioned "Some more ambitious aspects of plans for 1.0 have been
> postponed or scaled back to make 1.0 achievable soon. (For example, cached
> compilation and replacing Ivy)".
>
> But why was it pushed back?

Because it's not easy, so including it in the first 1.0 release would delay the 1.0 release date. The goal is to avoid further delays and get on Scala 2.12 as soon as possible.

> There is a better alternative to ivy, called coursier (
> https://github.com/coursier/coursier ), you can just get rid of ivy and
> put cousier inside by default.

Everyone wants this to happen but pushing the change through is not going to be quick or simple. See https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/2997 and linked issues. Let's get 1.0 out the door first.