Put on the spot right today, It's august 9th, and I got to have everything tested and
ready by the 22nd, and I've decided to use Ant as my main release tool, and I'm a real
novice at this Ant stuff, no wonder I'm panicking right now.
To top that, I'm the only knowledgeable Ant person in the team. Tough job when it's
done and I try to explain it to them.
This Tibco project has 25 independent interfaces (or components used interchangeably
here), plus 1 common/shared component. I should be able to say: build interface1 intf5
and intf15 for example
The directory structure is like this
root/
/shared
/interface1
...
/interface25
The shared component has its own rule, and there is nothing out of the ordinary.
The 25 component builds use the same rules. The only difference is the top directory
for the interface and probably some other properties (they said none, but I know
better: they'll be coming later).
Question 1: How would I design my build.xml? I do not see how I can parametrize a task
like a function call and pass it the top directory of the interface and maybe lateron
other properties (I'm still very much scripting in my mind). Or do I copy the same
build.xml to each interface and call it from the top level interface?
The build has some C++ and Java build part: that part, I feel a little more confident.
It's what comes below that bothers me.
Each directory has a MATRIX of where to deliver the files.
For example:
development:.../config/aaaa should go to machine1:/xxx/aaaa
development:.../custom/bbbb should go to machine1:/yyy/bbbb and machine3:/zzz/bbbb
and lots of that kind of combination.
How would you handle that? I'm tempted to do it in Perl, since I'm already familiar
with it.
We use Clearcase, and there is a step to checkout certain files, fill in some info,
check it back in. I know there is a clearcase task. What do I gain in using the
clearcase task over writing a perl script myself?
Mea culpa, nobody forces me to use Ant (1.5), now I need to be saved.
tia
Suu Quan
Configuration Management & Release Engineering
Agilent Technologies
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