Stefan Daume, a fellow University of Edinburgh AI graduate, was kind enough to give me a demo of the Cloudsmith software distribution solution. Cloudsmith is currently in beta and allows you to define custom software distributions, assembled from components published in Maven repositories or from Eclipse plug-ins. The very slick Cloudsmith GUI makes managing distributions easy, while the powerful runtime, based on the Eclipse Buckminster project, performs all the heavy lifting to ensure component dependencies are resolved. Distributions can be easily “materialized” into an Eclipse workspace. I’m definintely going to take a second look at Cloudsmith — perhaps it can help to manage the 80+ plug-ins that compose a Rule Studio distribution?

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