I have been struggling with versioning software for a while now. I'm not talking about a naming convention, I'm talking about how to actually apply a version in a build system all the way through to a release. I generally use major.minor.maintenance-[release type] i.e. 1.0.2-rc1 The problem is managing the version number. I've tried ma...
what is boost jam and is it jam worth migrating to? I understand that jam is build system built by perforce however I am not sure how the boost jam & regular jam is different. I'm also hoping there could be someone in the SO community who has worked with it and maybe can highlight some differences and/or benefits. ...
I'm looking for a make platform. I've read a little about gnu make, and that its got some issues on windows platforms (from slash/backslash, to shell determination ... ) so I would like to hear what are my alternatives to it ? If it matters, i'm doing fortran development combined with (very)little c on small sized projects (50k lines ma...
I know that the Go source comes with a Makefile (It's in $GOROOT/doc) which I am using right now, but have other popular build systems added support for Go yet? Has anyone written build scripts for scons, waf etc... What do you use to build your Go programs? ...