I tried Bamboo and Hudson 2 years ago when I was evaluating all of the different tools. I found QuickBuild to be, by far, the easiest to setup my complicated build pipeline. Some systems, I had to resort to writing shell commands to do the actual copy of artifacts from one build machine to another. QuickBuild has this concept built in to its default steps. Anyway, I strongly urge everyone to take a look at QuickBuild 3.1. It is free until you start needing lots of build configurations. Again, sorry for the QuickBuild commercial on an IVY mailing list. Perhaps Bamboo and Hudson have made this easier in their newer versions, haven't looked at them recently.
--- Shawn Castrianni -----Original Message----- From: Tim Brown [mailto:tpbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:21 AM To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org Subject: Re: Publishing C-module artifacts from different platforms Felix, But if it's a single source base, for multiple platforms, wouldn't building and publishing for a single platform be considered not fully tested? If the developer wants to share his WIP code with another, why wouldn't he just use a patch instead? [or, build it for the other platforms, test it, then commit it all so that CI does it's job] side-note: yeah, you can do the build pipeline similar to Shawn's with Hudson [and Go, and Bamboo, etc.] On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Felix Drueke <fdru...@orga-systems.com>wrote: > Shawn, thanks for that valuable input. > > I assume we're going for a pretty similar procedure. > We're using Hudson to verify that the build still works on all platforms > and compilers. > So I guess it's also possible to have Hudson publish the artifacts right > away > (didn't try that yet). > > However there's still one reason why I think that artifacts for just one > platform should be publishable (at least for dev-snapshots). > That is if a developer wants to publish the results of his latest work > in his current workspace. In that case he'll just want to publish for > just one platform and that's sufficient in that situation. > > Felix > > > Shawn Castrianni wrote, on 01/12/2011 05:19 PM: > > I can't answer your question, but I can tell you how I handle this. >> >> I felt it was a bad idea to publish a partial module such that one >> platform's artifacts are present and other are not. If this happens because >> of a compiler error on one platform but not others, then you can get into a >> bad situation. Such as, someone saying that my new feature works on linux >> but not on windows, not knowing that it works on linux because the new >> feature was compiled successfully on that platform and he is using the new >> published module. But when he tries on windows, he is picking up on old >> published module since a new one with windows artifacts is not present due >> to the compile error. Stuff like that. >> >> Therefore, what I do is just as you describe, using separate configuration >> for each platform. But then I use a good automated build system (QuickBuild >> 3.1) to wrap ivy commands. So my QB build workflow is: >> >> 0. randomly select a master build machine from the pool, let's call it >> MASTER >> 1. MASTER: checkout source on any machine >> 2. MASTER: tar up source >> 3. MASTER: copy source to other platform build machines >> 4. EACH PLATFORM: untar onto each of those machines >> 5. MASTER: delete tar file >> 6. MASTER: clean.all >> 7. MASTER: ivy dependencies (specifying proper conf setting so that All >> platforms dependency artifacts are downloaded) >> 8. MASTER: perform java compile >> 9. MASTER: copy dependencies and resulting jars from java compile to >> other platform build machines >> 10: EACH PLATFORM: perform native code build >> 11: EACH PLATFORM: perform unit testing >> 12: EACH PLATFORM: copy resulting artifacts from each platform machine to >> master machine >> 13: MASTER: publish all platform artifacts at once >> >> By using a good automated build system, you can easily handle this multi >> platform build workflow and the hand off of control from one node to >> another. Then the publishing ONLY happens if ALL platforms are successful. >> Therefore, I do not need the ability to publish a partial module. >> >> I am sure there are other ways to do this and there is probably debate as >> to how efficient this is, but it works very well in a production >> environment. If this sounds like an advertisement for QuickBuild, I >> apologize. I do not work for them. I am just a passionate happy customer. >> >> --- >> Shawn Castrianni >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Felix Drueke [mailto:fdru...@orga-systems.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:59 AM >> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org >> Subject: Publishing C-module artifacts from different platforms >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to manage the dependencies of a set of C-modules with ivy. >> Each of these modules needs to be compiled on different platforms (i.e. >> Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and others). >> >> This requires that the same sources are compiled in separate workspaces >> (on the different hosts). >> >> In a first attempt I setup one ivy.xml with a set of configurations - one >> for >> each platform on that I have to build&publish artifacts. >> >> Being unexperienced with Ivy I didnd't find a way to just publish the >> artifact for the one configuration that I built in a workspace. >> For example I built module XYZ on Solaris and of course I can only >> publish the Solaris-artifact from that workspace. In another worlspace >> I got the artifact for Linux and of course I can only publish that. >> >> How do you accomplish to publish just the artifacts for one particular >> configuration? >> >> Thanks for any hint, >> Felix >> >> The information included in this e-mail and any files transmitted with it >> is strictly confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from >> disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender >> immediately by e-mail and delete this e-mail as well as any attachment from >> your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are not authorized to >> use and/or copy this message and/or attachment and/or disclose the contents >> to any other person. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and >> privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. 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