Oh and btw I use a headless OSX (Mac Mini) slave to build our iOS jobs. Main Jenkins server is Linux and is used for our other jobs (PHP etc).
On Monday, December 2, 2013 10:29:21 PM UTC+7, Jai Govindani wrote: > > Hey there - responses below - would do in-line but seems to end up as a > bit of a mess. > > == what are your IOS/Mac OS X use case(s) ? > We use Jenkins to put out test builds of our app (Zodio) as well as to run > unit tests. Then we package up the IPA and ship out/upload to HockeyApp. > > == do you use the xcode plugin ? If yes, what are you missing ? If not, > what do you use and why ? > Yes we use it. Overall it does what it's supposed to - setup could be > simpler (mostly with regards to the help tips/documentation - happy to > assist on that, because I keep forgetting myself whenever I have to > reconfigure a project!). > > Unit test support could be better - had an issue with one of the earlier > versions with regards to parsing unit test output. Ended up having to run > xcodebuild as a Shell step instead of an Xcode step because it kept > failing. Now i'm trying out xctool (from Facebook) to run unit tests since > it seems to run faster and is less verbose than xcodebuild. Haven't been > able to get it working yet though. > > == what's your general view of the current IOS/Mac build jenkins ecosystem > and how would you like it to be improved ? > It definitely took a few days to get it all set up so I guess there could > be more support for people who are new to CI. Overall for what it does, and > considering it's all open source, I'm damn glad we have it! > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:56:36 PM UTC+7, Jerome Lacoste wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If you are in any way interested in the future of building IOS/Mac apps >> using jenkins, then you should participate to this thread. Please answer, >> even in a few months :) >> >> I've had various conversations with different parties off list and I >> would prefer to consolidate the conversations here, to have a stronger >> cooperation and plan. >> >> Some questions: >> == what are your IOS/Mac OS X use case(s) ? >> == do you use the xcode plugin ? If yes, what are you missing ? If not, >> what do you use and why ? >> == what's your general view of the current IOS/Mac build jenkins >> ecosystem and how would you like it to be improved ? >> >> So please shout your ideas as reply to this thread and we will sort >> things out. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
