From the Typesafe website:
“Today, we're pleased to announce the open source availability of dbuild, a tool we use within Typesafe to test Scala's ecosystem. dbuild is a tool which can take a disparate set of projects and compile them against each other, ensuring that modifications to code in one project does not break code in another project. dbuild was instrumental in the Scala 2.11 release, where it was used to compile and validate more than 70 open source projects, 1.2 million lines of Scala code and 120 thousand lines of Java code. This helped ensure that our open source ecosystem would have a smooth transition from Scala 2.10 into the 2.11 series.”
What is dbuild?
“dbuild is not a build tool, it is a build aggregator. dbuild takes a set of distinct projects, like Scala, scalaz, Akka, spark, and attempts to rewire their builds such that all code is built together, as a cohesive unit. For example, we can build the latest in-development Scala, then use this recently built Scala to build and test a version of Akka. Finally, this newly built version of Akka is used to build and test the Play project.”
