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how to increase the speed of R CMD build when directory contains large unassociated files?

I have a R package in the directory ~/package; I also keep the output from my use of the package in the directory ~/package/out. When the content of ~/package/out gets very large, it takes minutes instead of seconds to build this package. Is there a way to have "R CMD build package" ignore the ~/package/out directory? ...

Building for x86 and 'Any CPU'

I am trying to use Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB driver to connect to an access database from my C# application. When I try to open a connection, I get an error: "The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine." This is because the driver is only supported on 32 bit machines. My solution was to change the platform t...

Can we specify a specific user settings.xml to use via pom.xml ?

Hi, I would like to know if someone found a trick to specify a settings.xml file in a (parent) pom.xml. The goal is to avoid every developer to have their own -possibly "customize"- version of those settings. Instead it would be set on a central location on the corporate network. I'm aware of the "-s" that works on the command-line, b...

Does it make sense to use ant build with a grails application?

If I understand correctly, the purpose of groovy and grails are to execute without (visible) compilation. However, I have inherited some old grails code that I can't build any more. I can see the advantages of having a build.xml file for special purposes, but, considering that the programming nature of Grails is to run on the fly, does...

Team Foundation Server 2010 Build Question

Does anyone know if its possible to have TFS2010 Build Server run ONLY tests rather than entire project. Here is why, I want to setup a schedule to have my server execute my tests daily, without having to make sure my entire project is fully functional, since I will be working on the code, it may not be buildable, however my tests shoul...

componentdef error with ant

I have an relatively old Grails app that uses ant to build the application. In the test server it build without any problems, but when I try to run it on my PC, I get a consistent error: Caused by: jar:file:/C:/ant/apache-ant-1.8.0/lib/ant.jar!/org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml:37: Problem: failed to create task or type componentdef C...