This project contains all the bits of Scala that don't belong in trunk. This includes but is not limited to:

• Additional Documentation
  • The Scala Specification
  • Scala by example
• Example code
• Native packages
  • msi
  • deb
  • rpm
• Support for third-party tools
  • vi
  • gedit
  • more!

This build requires a scala distrbution build from the scala/scala project. Here's how to obtain one and tell this build about it:

• Please run ant dist-opt in in the scala/scala project.
• zip the <scala/scala>/dist/latest directory into a file called scala-dist.zip
• Copy scala-dist.zip into <scala/scala-dist>/target/tmp/scala-dist.zip
• Start sbt in the <scala/scala-dist> directory.
• Run one of the build commands.

Here's a few things to build:

• examples/compile - Compiles the examples
• scala-installer/windows:package-msi - Builds the windows MSI. Requires WIX 3.6 installed
• scala-installer/debian:package-bin - Builds the debian DEB file. Requires dpkg-deb
• scala-installer/rpm:package-bin - Builds the yum RPM file. requires rpm
• scala-installer/universal:package-bin - Builds the universal zip installer
• scala-installer/universal-docs:package-bin - Builds the universal documentation zip