"Res Pons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sorry to post across the userlists. > > I'm using Subversion, Ant, and Anthill OS to automate my projects. We > release many products in different projects. > > Currently I have set up a property sheet in Anthill for each project's > build.xml and everything works fine. However, many of the projects create > a .jar file which is used or needed by other projects. I tell my > build.xml file in each project where to get the compiled jar files. > > With so many jar files being copied all over and our projects growing > larger and larger daily, I was asked to create my own top parallel project > and call all the build files from my master proj and make this project the > exchange folder for all the jar files or any other artifact. It's a > cleaner way, of course and more contained but it entails more work on my > part. > > I've got my master build file to work, running at the cmnd prompt, > however, Anthill does not like it when you tell a build file to check out > other top level project files from the repo. Should I create dummy > project files in Anthill just to check out the other projects and then let > my build file take control? > > Somebody please give me guidance on the big picture. Is this a good idea > to have a master and separate build project aware of all the other > projects and but the other projects not being aware of it? How do I bypass > the Anthill's shortcoming? By switching to CruiseControl? Are there or do > you have any examples I could see please? >
It's more of a CI system, but the Tomcat developers use Gump (http://gump.apache.org) to keep tabs on how Tomcat is affected by changes in other projects it depends on (e.g. commons-logging). Since JUnit is currently being plagued by a bad commit, it's probably not the best time to advertise this, but the current 'official' Gump building URL (used by Tomcat) for ASF projects is: http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/index.html, which will at least give you an idea of the info that Gump can provide. Admittedly, the documentation is a bit sparse for setting up your own CI system with Gump, but the mailing list is usually helpful, and relatively low-traffic. > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
