> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Mangi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:26 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Clustered Maven? > > FYI - the build system I described was for PV-WAVE > (www.vni.com) circa > 1996. The builds ran on a dozen flavors of unix, vax and open vms. We > did partial builds (certain components and not necessarily automated) > on QNX, Win NT, NextStep, Linux (slackware 0.x i think) and MacOS 8 > (IIRC). It worked great. No single failure would take down > the rest of > the builds (why would they?). This code was easily 1,000,000 > lines. C, > C++, Fortran. A similar process was used to build IMSL back then as > well. > > Shell scripts, rsh, expect, etc. aren't sexy. But sometimes > they're the > best tool for the job. I'm not knocking any of the other tools > mentioned, I haven't used them. They might be great. > > Rick >
True. Sorry if I sounded dismissive. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
