Bench aims to take the pain out of the following scenarios:
- I quickly need a command line tool under Windows but first I need to
find it on the web, then download it, install it, and then make shure
it is on the
PATHvariable, but wait it has a dependency I need to fulfill first… - I have a project with a number of tool dependencies and want a friend to help me make progress, but then he needs to install all the tools I so carefully prepared on my maschine…
- I want to try out another programming language, but I don’t want to spent my time preparing all the tools I need, but instead invest it in learning the new language…
- I am behind a proxy firewall and I need to configure my Eclipse, Git,
JDK (which never updates
JAVA_HOMEon updates), Maven and GnuPG to work with public repositories… - I am switching development machines on a regular bases, and I need to keep the tools and the configuration of the command-line environment in sync, between all of them…
- I have a PHP project which uses PostgreSQL and I need it portable on a USB flash drive, but XAMPP or whatever packages out there always feature MySQL…