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JitPack vs Pants: What are the differences?
What is JitPack? JitPack builds GitHub Gradle and Maven projects on demand and provides ready-to-use packages. JitPack is an easy to use package repository for Gradle/Sbt and Maven projects We build GitHub projects on demand and provides ready-to-use packages..
What is Pants? Build system by Twitter, Foursquare, and Square. Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.
JitPack and Pants can be primarily classified as "Java Build" tools.
"Because uploading to maven central is a ball ache" is the top reason why over 5 developers like JitPack, while over 5 developers mention "Creates deployable packages" as the leading cause for choosing Pants.
Pants is an open source tool with 1.16K GitHub stars and 333 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pants's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of JitPack
- Because uploading to maven central is a ball ache12
Pros of Pants
- Creates deployable packages6
- Runs on Linux4
- Runs on OS X4
- BUILD files4
- Runs tests4
- Scales4
- Flexibility2
- Extensible2