this morning's digression: pickler visualization + sbt runner update

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:20:51 -0700
Paul Phillips wrote:

> Someone mentioned a project I hadn't seen which creates .dots from scala
> pickler data. I moved the ball forward.
>
> https://github.com/paulp/pickler-visualizer

This is neat.

> I threw in some enhancements for my sbt runner which I needed for
> automatic sbt-0.11-snapshot usage. It is now pretty featureful, albeit
> probably not enormously well exercised.
>
> https://github.com/paulp/sbt-extras

For what it's worth, you can already put commands to run when sbt starts up in ~/.sbtrc or /.sbtrc, and they will be run before the project is loaded. It is probably most useful for configuring logging, defining aliases, or running custom checks at startup (like prompting to create a project if it doesn't exist or printing a startup message). I haven't used it much, so it might need some work to be useful.

-Mark