Hi Bob.
We've recently adopted TeamCity, and I've found the whole point/click
interface to be a real bonus because *other people* will be able to look
after the builds, not just me.
CruiseControl.NET is capable and reliable, but the knowledge barrier to
entry is pretty high - and I didn't want to be the only one able to
maintain the builds.
I'm not sure what you want from your CI server wrt versioning - if you
just want to apply a label to the code in a particular build, TeamCity
supports that out of the box. Otherwise, yes, you need to write a script
using NAnt or your tool of choice.
Even though we're using TeamCity Professional (ie: the free edition),
we've found the support from JetBrains to be first-class: the couple of
questions we've posed have been answered both quickly and accurately.
Just my 2c,
Bevan.
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Archer
Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2008 6:02 a.m.
To: Steve Kapinos; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] cc.net and nant and msbuild
Steven,
Thanks much. I looked at Team City over the past few days and just
didn't see any advantage to it. Yes, it has some nice features. But, the
way it touts that you can set up your build with point/click interface
is well not so true. If all you do is compile and run unit tests. But,
what about versioning as a simple example. Well, I would have to create
a Nant script (or build plug-in). Same with any thing else I would have
to do.
The biggest advantage for us would have been the build agents. We build
some VB6 code so each version has to run independently due to DLL
registration.
I also looked at Final builder, which does do a lot of stuff out of the
box using an IDE, but it is pretty expensive. My budget for this is $0
so open source license price is right.
I wonder if your previous issues were with CC.Net or actually with
sourcesafe and bat files.
Thanks for your input.
BOb
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From: Steve Kapinos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:38 PM
To: Bob Archer; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] cc.net and nant and msbuild
We moved from CC.net to teamcity with very good success. CC.net was
problematic for us at times. Moved from CC.net, sourcesafe, and bat
files to team-city, nant, and svn in one fell swoop.
In our setups, source control is handled by teamcity mostly, but some
scripts have source checkout in them (using exec not the svn components
of nant).
We build from a clean directory each time rather then rebuild.
Teamcity has been very good to us as a CI platform and integrates very
cleanly with nant and svn
-Steve
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Archer
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:27 PM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] cc.net and nant and msbuild
Hi All,
I am curious... when you have CC.Net setup up with a subversion source
control block, does it do an update of the workingDirectory? Or, do you
need to do that in your nant build file? I'm confused if the
autoGetSource means it does updates or just checkouts when there is no
_svn folder.
Also, if you tell MSBuild to do a Rebuild... does that mean it deletes
all of the obj/bin folders first by itself... or are you guys doing this
in your nant scripts?
Yes, I am re-working my builds again... decided to move away from CI
Factory, although I did get a lot of great ideas from its scripts.
BOb
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