[DUG] Automated builds

[Richard Vowles]

There is also Hudson, Team City Professional (www.jetbrains.com - free & $$$
versions), Continuum (Apache - free), Anthill (free and $$$ versions),
Bamboo (Atlassian, those who do Jira and Confluence, $$$), and others (see
Wikipedia). There is also of course Microsoft's offering in Team Foundation
Server (but at $11k per seat, it is probably out of most people's price
range).

Generally you want to use one that also integrates with the version control
system you use and bug tracking software if you can. Once you have that,
there are other nice features that can be had, and some products offer quite
significant integration sideways through your development process (e.g. into
code reviews).

Richard

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-
> bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Alister Christie
> Sent: Friday, 11 April 2008 1:09 PM
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Automated builds
> 
> There seems to be two commercial automated build engines that work with
> Delphi
> Automated Build Studio
> http://www.automatedqa.com/products/abs/?gclid=CITur9fb0ZICFSEYagod-
> Sn1Hg
> 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.
> 
> Alister Christie
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> 
> 
> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > What are people using to do automated builds?
> >
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