What constitutes a good CI build-process? We use CI, but is deployment to production even a realistic CI goal when you have dependencies on several services that should be deployed too and other apps may depend on these too. Is a good good CI build process good enough when its automated to QA and manual from there? ...
I have a dev, that will get around our code coverage by writing tests that never fail. The code is just atrocious, but the tests never catch it because they assert(true). I code review, but I can't do everyones work for them, all the time. How do you get people like this motivated to make good software? Is there a build plugin for det...
There are so many different systems out there, what do you prefer? Using a system that is written in the same language like your own software? I started with the famous Autotools-Collection once. Some years later I found and tried SCons and was amazed. It's so clean and easy in comparison to Autotools-stuff - but to have Python as a dep...
Is there any way to generate project docs during automated builds? I'd like to have a single set of source files (HTML?) with the user manual, and from them generate: PDF document CHM help HTML version of the help The content would be basically the same in all three formats. Currently I'm using msbuild and CCNET, but I could chan...
We use Hudson as a continuous integration system to execute automated builds (nightly and based on CVS polling) of a lot of our projects. Some projects poll CVS every 15 minutes, some others poll every 5 minutes and some poll every hour. Every few weeks we'll get a build that fails with the following output: FATAL: java.io.IOException...
What are the recommendations for including your compiler, libraries, and other tools in your source control system itself? In the past, I've run into issues where, although we had all the source code, building an old version of the product was an exercise in scurrying around trying to get the exact correct configuration of Visual Studio...
I have developed a couple of extensions for Firefox, and am annoyed that it is so hard to get the extension signed. When an extension isn't signed, it says "Author not verified" when it is installed, and to me that just looks wrong. I have a simple build script that builds my .xpi file from sources, and I have a licenced copy of PKZip ...
Is it possible to modify a registry value (whether string or DWORD) via a .bat/.cmd script? ...
I'm trying to automate a program I made with a test suite via a .cmd file. I can get the program that I ran's return code via %errorlevel%. My program has certain return codes for each type of error. For example: 1 - means failed for such and such a reason 2 - means failed for some other reason ... echo FAILED: Test case failed,...
Hello, I bumped into a strange situation with MSBuild just now. There's a solution which has three projects: LibX, LibY and Exe. Exe references LibX. LibX in its turn references LibY, has some content files, and also references to a third-party library (several pre-built assemblies installed in both GAC and local lib folder). The third-...
Is there a NAnt task that will echo out all property names and values that are currently set during a build? Something equivalent to ant's echoproperties task maybe. ...
What do you think about this build tool? I'm thinking of migrating from maven2 to raven (my poms are getting bigger and bigger), but I'd like to hear some opinions first. Thanks! @andre: Thank's for writing but I was actually looking for real experiences using raven. Anyway, the fact that nobody wrote is an indicator by itself (it see...
I might be starting a new project in .NET soon, and would prefer not to use an XML-based build tool like Nant or MSBuild. I like Rake, but I'm thinking it may be better to have something based on a .NET dynamic language (such as Boo), similar in spirit to gant or BuildR for Java. Is there such a thing for .NET? If not, what do you recomm...
Using ant I could unzip an archive before proceeding with the build per-se ... Is this possible using nmake ? Could I call an external application ? Or even a batch script ? ...
Does anyone know how to get the name of the TARGET (/t) called from the MSBuild command line? There are a few types of targets that can be called and I want to use that property in a notification to users. Example: msbuild Project.proj /t:ApplicationDeployment /p:Environment=DEV I want access to the target words ApplicationDeployment ...
Hi Everyone, So this is a question for anyone who has had to integrate the building/compilation of legacy projects/code in a Team Build/MSBuild environment - specifically, Visual Basic 6 applications/projects. Outside of writing a custom build Task (which I am not against) does anyone have any suggestions on how best to integrate comp...
I've been using maven2 and hudson for a while to do my continuous integration, but I find that Eclipse and Maven do not play well together. Sure there's a plugin, but it's cranky to mash the maven project into something that eclipse likes and the build times and unit test are too long. I'm considering switching back to a pure eclipse pro...
Some of the other questions and answers here on SO extol the virtues of using an enterprise repository tool like Archiva, Artifactory, or Nexus. What are the pros and cons of each? How do I choose between them? In case it helps: We use both Maven 1 and Maven 2 (at least for a while) We want to store both internally-generated artifacts...
I have never quite understood how/why I would use Maven modules (reactor builds). We have tens of libraries that we share (as dependencies) among our products, and between libraries as well. If we were to switch to making them maven modules, how would we set it up, both in svn and in our working copies? Do Maven Modules really need to...
I was wondering is there is a fool-proof way to run a program on windows such that I'm guaranteed that no interactive dialogs of any kind are displayed. I've tried the registry ErrorMode hack, calling _CrtSetReportMode(), etc., but they all have holes in them or require you to modify the program. I need a way to run an arbitrary progra...