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...
Can anyone explain what advantages there are to using a tool like MSBuild (or NAnt) to build a collection of projects versus running DevEnv.exe from the command-line? A colleague I had worked with in the past had explained that (at least with older versions of Visual Studio) using DevEnv.exe was much slower than the other techniques, bu...
What are the possibilities to enforce certain package dependencies in a java build system? E.g. the myapp.server.bl.Customer class not allowed to refer to the myapp.client.ui.customlayout package. I'm interested in either Ant or IDE-specific solutions. I'd like to get an error message in the build process indicating that a (custom) pac...
How can I limit my post-build events to running only for one type of build? I'm using the events to copy DLLs to a local IIS virtual directory but I don't want this happening on the build server in release mode. ...
I want to create a custom MSBuild task that changes my .cs files before they are compiled by csc.exe (but, of course, that doesn't modify them in place - I don't want actual source files touched). I am aware of PostSharp and other AOP frameworks for .NET and they are not an option for this particular project, plus I'd like to learn how ...
From within FlexBuilder3, I can go to "Data/Manage Web Services..." select a web service, and click "Update" to ensure that my code and the server are in sync. How do I automate this so that each time I build, the automatically generated web service code is regenerated? If the server interface changes during development but my code does...
Is there a way to have a file that is modified / touched whenever the WC is updated to a new revision? Or, as the second-best option, whenever svn update is executed? Here's the motivation: I want to have the SVN revision number inside my executable. So I have to run SubWCRev as part of the build. The output file of SubWCRev is re-creat...
I am a member of a team that is about to launch a beta of a python (Django specifically) based web site and accompanying suite of backend tools. The team itself has doubled in size from 2 to 4 over the past few weeks and we expect continued growth for the next couple of months at least. One issue that has started to plague us is gettin...
We are trying to automate a build of one of our products which includes a step where it packages some things with WISE. At one point WISE pops up a window with a progress bar on it to show how it is doing. If one is connected to the machine with remote desktop the build works fine but if one is not connected the build stalls until you ...
This is a continuation question from a previous question I have asked I now have a /externals directory in the root of my project tree. Inside this I have a reference to another project. I'm able to script the build of all my externals in the main project NAnt script. The result of these builds are as follows: /externals/external-proje...
Is it possible to have a different set of dependencies in a maven pom.xml file for different profiles? e.g. mvn -P debug mvn -P release I'd like to pick up a different dependency jar file in one profile that has the same class names and different implementations of the same interfaces. ...
We have a makefile that is built last in our build process using Visual Studio to launch our unit tests. Unfortunately if the build fails the makefile is still processed and we have extra (annoying) errors. Any way to prevent that? Example Project A : build dummy.exe Project B (makefile) : build command is : run dummy.exe /unittest We ...
My build process consists of Qt's qmake Makefile generator and the typical make utility bundled with linux. My application consists of a few shared libraries and the main application is linked against them. How can I apply the typical linux versioning scheme on my libraries? (Use version 2 -> link against foo.so.2 that points to foo.so.2...
The default output path for any project is Visual studio is bin/Debug, but I have noticed that obj folder is also generated which again contains dlls and pdbs. Can someone tell me why is this folder generated ...
I'm looking for a good book that describes how small to medium sized development teams utilize version control, and best practices in terms of development and build processes. If the book relates specifically to .NET, that's a plus, but it can be language agnostic. Any recommendations? ...
I've been looking at profiles in maven for selecting different sets of dependencies. This is fine when you want to build say a debug build differently from a release build. My problem is that I want to do a fair bit more than this. For my application (Mobile Java app where J2ME is just one target among many) there may be a large number o...
I want completely automated integration testing for a Maven project. The integration tests require that an external (platform-dependent) program is started before running. Ideally, the external program would be killed after the unit tests are finished, but is not necessary. Is there a Maven plugin to accomplish this? Other ideas? ...
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...
I would like to make the update of the web application as automated as possible. I'm looking for a tool that can compare two instances of a database and generate an update script for me. As part of the build process create a instance of the last version of the database (ie currently in production) and compare that to what has been change...
I'm not talking about a post build event for a project. Rather, I want to run an executable automatically after the entire solution is built. Is there a way to do a post build event for the solution? ...