another reason: some people felt that the ant builds were excessively deterministic. by including random downloads of -SNAPSHOT artifacts the build has been made more enteratining
On 16 May 2012 21:40, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also mention a benefit of testing and inter-component integration > standardization. This is, essentially, what BigTop has done by introducing > and > supporting open-source solution for creating and validating Hadoop stacks. > > > Funnily enough, this simple concept was too hard to grok for some of the > commercial vendors. The management there were literally insisting on doing > _manual_ testing for their packages (at least at the time that when I was > working for one of them and observing it:) But I guess this is a different > story... > > I seem to recall showing someone (todd?) at an apachecon a few years back how my ant build would scp the just-built RPMs to a test VM, install them, walk them through their lifecycle and then verify that they uninstall.
