Hey, Lionel Orry mentioned buildbot [1] to help us for our releases, so i looked at its features a bit and I will try to summarize the benefits we can have if we use that tool.
So, buildbot is a framework that automates the compilation or the tests of a software project. Hence, it allows the validation of code changes. It allows also the validation on other platforms than linux (i obviously think of the possibility to check the compilation on Windows CE and Windows XP with cross compilation chains available on linux). Hence it can replace our old "nighty builds", and it will also add a lot more advantages (see below). Also, no need to maintain it, as other people do that for us. The main advantages I see with that tool is that it will decrease the potential breakages before we want to do a pre-release, and it can do that automatically. So it could save us a lot of time and effort. Other interests, found in the website: * Warning counts * lint checks * image size * compile time * irc bot to check the status with commands in an irx channel * easy integration in trac [2] * web status (see Boost example [3]) * mail sender Note that the number of projects using buildbot is not small [4], so it seems really useful. I've lurked in channels that use these features, and it seems really convenient. So, do you think that it is worth installing and configuring buildbot ? regards Vincent [1] http://buildbot.net/trac [2] http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracBuildbotIntegration [3] http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html [4] http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/SuccessStories ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
