Can bloop support package command?

[davidmlw]

It is better to have a bloop package command, so that it is easy for bloop to package a project to jar file. Will this feature be supported?

[jvican]

Compiling to jar files will be supported as a mere extension of bloop compile, where we currently write class files in a classes directory. However, Bloop will not support a way to customize that step, so this task will not be like package in Maven or sbt or Gradle where the user can change what there is in there and how the jar is created. The reasoning behind that is that bloop does not aim to cover all of the use cases of a build tool, but instead focus on compiling, running, testing and debugging Scala and Java code.

[davidmlw]

I didn't find the right option of bloop compile. When will this mere extension be supported? Before that, is there some workaround that generates jar after bloop compile flow?

[tgodzik]

We don't support that currently, however scala-cli the new runner for Scala does support it. It's based on Bloop, which does the actual compilation: https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/