A lightweight tool for managing and building Kotlin projects.

kpm

kpm (Kotlin Project Manager) is a lightweight tool for managing and building Kotlin projects.

What is kpm?

Essentially, kpm is going to be a lightweight alternative to Gradle for simple Kotlin projects.

Why should I use kpm?

• Gradle is absolutely massive, and a lot of the fancy gradle features either get in the way, or are not used by small projects. Yes kpm does use Gradle as a build system, but that is because there is no other alternatives at the moment. as kpm matures, we will switch to using kpm.
• As for Maven, well... Do you like working with XML? If you say yes, you're lying to yourself.

How do I use it?

Right now, kpm is in early development, so it is not actually usable at the moment. As the project progresses, I will update this README with more information.

However, if you are interested, here's an outline of how kpm will be used:

• 1. Create your kpm.kts file:

  project {
      name = "hello-world"
  }

• 2. Initialize kpm using the CLI:

  cbyrne@Conors-MacBook-Air % kpm
  [kpm] Loading project hello-world...
  [kpm] Initializing project hello-world...
  [kpm] Project hello-world initialized.
        Note: A .kpm directory has been created to speed up subsequent builds.
        If you make a change to your kpm.kts file, you must reinitialize your project.
  

• 3. Build your project (also using the CLI):

  cbyrne@Conors-MacBook-Air % kpm build
  [kpm] hello-world loaded from cache.
  [kpm] Building project hello-world...
  [kpm] Project hello-world built. (./build/hello-world.jar)
  

Notes

• KPM is not affiliated with JetBrains or Kotlin in any way