Sbt-proguard vs xsbt-proguard-plugin vs ...?

Question

It looks like there are two SBT plugins for launching ProGuard. Can anyone talk about their relative strengths and weaknesses? I have not found a comparison on the Internet.

• xsbt-proguard-plugin - https://github.com/adamw/xsbt-proguard-plugin - ~ 2-year-old independent project; last touched GitHub 6mo ago
• sbt-proguard - https://github.com/sbt/sbt-proguard - ~ 5 year project; part of the official sbt repo; last touched GitHub 2 days ago

I guess the xsbt-proguard-plugin is generally more mature, but why would SBT students on their own?

Answer 1

I have tried both. They are similar in function, although each has minor quirks. I could not get the "merge" function in sbt-proguard to work, possibly due to a temp directory naming error. However, I still chose sbt-proguard over the other, because xsbt-proguard-plugin does not provide output in a way that can be accessed from sbt , for example for jarsigning or other further processing. I ended up using assembly for merge processing. After some debate, I got him to work. The process and sample build.sbt are on my blog .