On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 19:19, Janos Mucsi wrote: > Hi > This may be a stupid question, but what is the > essential difference between CruiseControl and Gump > (functionality-wise). It seems that they both check > out the current version of projects, detect changes, > run full builds and unit tests, and they generate > reports. > Which one should I use for continuous integration?
For anyone interested in making production software in Java you will want to use CruiseControl. It focuses on your project so it tests your code against binary releases of your dependencies and if you find a problem it's written in Java so you can actually help the CruiseControl team. Gump on the other hand is more of a social experiement that is used to inform OSS projects that they are breaking one another's contracts. Gump builds every project from it's most current sources and so is effectively useless to anyone making production software because no one in their right mind would attempt to do this on a daily basis. For example if your project uses jakarta-foo version 1.1 you don't care what the developers are doing on the trunk because you'll just wait for the next release and do a look see then. Also if you run into a problem with Gump it's written Python, because they want to be able to build anything in any language, so as a Java-only programmer you're SOL. Gump is not Java-centric and most programmers don't have the time to learn a new programming language every year but you'll get to if you want to try and fix Gump. Gump is interesting socially in the OSS community but if you're making production software I wouldn't bother with Gump, use CruiseControl it's definitely better suited and a nice little servlet and probably much easier to setup. > (With the upcoming scm ClearCase support for example.) > Thanks. > Janos > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maven.apache.org happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
