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Pants vs Sonatype Nexus: What are the differences?
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; Sonatype Nexus: The world's best way to organize, store, and distribute software components. Deliver better, safer software even faster with software supply chain automation.
Pants and Sonatype Nexus can be categorized as "Java Build" tools.
Pants and Sonatype Nexus are both open source tools. It seems that Pants with 1.16K GitHub stars and 333 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sonatype Nexus with 527 GitHub stars and 236 GitHub forks.
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- Creates deployable packages6
- Runs on Linux4
- Runs on OS X4
- BUILD files4
- Runs tests4
- Scales4
- Flexibility2
- Extensible2
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What is Pants?
Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.
What is Sonatype Nexus?
It is an open source repository that supports many artifact formats, including Docker, Java™ and npm. With the Nexus tool integration, pipelines in your toolchain can publish and retrieve versioned apps and their dependencies
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What are some alternatives to Pants and Sonatype Nexus?
Bazel
Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
Gradle
Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.
Apache Maven
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
CMake
It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of the user's choice.
JFrog Artifactory
It integrates with your existing ecosystem supporting end-to-end binary management that overcomes the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and provides consistency to your CI/CD workflow.