[DUG] Automated builds

[Jeremy North]

I'm an extremely happy FinalBuilder user. Once you have your scripts
setup (and it can some fine tuning) it is great.

Fire and forget. Support is excellent when I have needed it (even got
a hotfix for an issue) and updates are regular.

I have a maintenance subscription but you don't have to. I haven't
upgraded to Version 6 yet, however with the PRO version you get the
server version, which I hope to put in place in the near future.

cheers,
Jeremy

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Conor Boyd <Conor.Boyd at trimble.co.nz> wrote:
> The team over the wall are using NANT as the build scripting environment
> (I think).  Another vague assumption of mine is that there is an MSBuild
> task for NANT already, and that if it is true that Delphi 2007 supports
> MSBuild, then hopefully it shouldn't be too much work to get a NANT task
> to do a Delphi MSBuild.
>
> I'd be reasonably confident that there is no need to fork out for a
> commercial build engine.
>
> Seriously, don't quote me on any of this, I really haven't got any
> further than hypothesising about this today after you asked. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
> [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Alister
> Christie
>
> There seems to be two commercial automated build engines that work with
> Delphi Automated Build Studio
> http://www.automatedqa.com/products/abs/?gclid=CITur9fb0ZICFSEYagod-Sn1H
> g
> Final Builder
> http://www.finalbuilder.com/home.aspx?amp;language=en-US
>
> There is a free one called WANT, but it doesn't seem to be maintained
> anymore http://sourceforge.net/projects/want/
>
> Running batch files doesn't sound all that much fun.  I'll look into
> CruiseControl.
>
> Conor Boyd wrote:
> > Currently using a rather large and convoluted series of batch files
> > which tag and then extract source from Subversion, build numerous
> > Delphi projects, build translated resource DLLs, and then package
> > everything into an Installshield Installer.
> >
> > However, one of the teams over the cube wall has just starting using
> > CruiseControl to do Continuous Integration builds of their (Visual
> > Studio) projects.
> >
> > I'm interested in this because they're using MSBuild to do the
> > building, and my vague understanding is that Delphi 2007 is MSBuild
> > compatible (?) and I'm wondering if I can migrate (realistically
> > rewrite) my batch files towards an MSBuild solution.
> >
> > Dunno anything more about how that's going to turn out at this stage,
> > but I think it's worth investigating.
> >
> > I use a dedicated WinXP VPC running on a Virtual Server to actually do
>
> > my builds, which is nice and easy to access both from my office PC,
> > and from home over our corporate VPN if I'm running an overnight
> build.
> >
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
> > [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Alister
> > Christie
> >
> > What are people using to do automated builds?
>
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