Christopher Snow wrote: > Hi Adam, do you know of any tools available that meet these requirements?
Um, I may be going out on a limb here, but ant? > > Adam Heath wrote: >> Christopher Snow wrote: >> >>> Hi Adam, >>> >>> What would be your preferred tool for managing the builds if we made >>> ofbiz more modular? >>> >> >> Must be stand-alone. Can't depend on anything from the network. >> >> Network resources may not be available in all cases. Plus, network >> resources can become stale, and go away, even if the network is >> available. >> >> Can't require system libraries. Can make use of system libraries, but >> needs to be able to be completely embedded, if necessary. >> >> This is to reduce the requirement of installing a bunch of extra stuff >> outside of the project being manipulated. >> >> Having a build definition file, that is then used to generate the >> actual build script(s), which are then cached, is frowned upon. >> >> Such systems are notorious for not updating the generated files when >> the generating parts have been updated. This is even more of a >> problem when only some dependent parts are updated, and you get >> mismatched generated parts, that then have funky weird issues. >> >> Those are my main three points that I would like to see addressed in >> any kind of build automation framework. >> >
