On Thursday 03 January 2008 19.42.26 nadim khemir wrote: > I did send a mail to cabie author asking if he had made a comparison > between cabie and other systems. I also invited him to join us on this > mailing list. I'll forward his answer if he does answer me.
I received an answer from Eric : I wish I did have some kind of comparison. Here's what one user wrote about choosing cabie: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2007/11/06/Continuous_Automated_Build_and_Integration_Environment.html I looked here: http://damagecontrol.codehaus.org/Continuous+Integration+Server+Feature+Matrix And if I go line by line here's how I stack up: Project origin: me, hosted on tigris.org Implementation language: Perl, Javascript, and the new UI dashboard in PHP (nearing completion) Free: yes Issue tracker: User definable, simple bug tracking and linking, no updating Online demo: no, but being worked on Number of active developers: 1 (lots of lurkers though, I need help!!!!) SCM support: Subversion, CVS, Perforce (utilizes a cmbroker, with integration of other tools being pretty simple) SCM filtering: limited, and definable Multi-SCM: not withing the same job Parallel builds: yes Distributed builds: Not within cabie Agents code auto updated: no Manually force builds: yes SCM triggered builds: if the trigger is defined and uses calls to the cabie build client SCM poll based builds: yes Temporal build scheduling: VIA the os, as a cron job or an at job Builds promotion: yes Interproject Dependencies: limited, can 'lock' a job that may be dependent on the output of another job Builds deletion: yes Reproduce history builds: No, but that's high on my priority list Proactive (can prevent build breakages): Not sure what they mean, but don't think so Detect new failing tests while build: User definable through 'errors' customization Notify when first test in build fails: Only if the buildname.errors file has been defined with searchable strings that would include test conditions User authentication: in new UI, weak, MD5 based User authorization schemes: HTTP basic auth LDAP integration: not at this time Kerebos: no Single sign-on: no Custom JAAS: no RSA SecurID: no Confluence: no Email: yes Run executable: yes FTP: Custom IRC: no Jabber: no Lotus sametime: no ProjectStart: no RSS: yes SCP: Custom Windows system tray: no Formatted logging: mysql, xml (via mysql) Yahoo Messenger: no MSN messenger: no X10: no View changesets: yes, past, present and pending including full historical data.... ===== New Web Interface ====== Add new projects: yes Clone projects: yes Delete projects: yes, 2 modes, from view and permanent Modify projects: yes Kill builds: yes Pause builds: no Access to build artifacts: yes Browse CI's working copy: no Search in builds: for defects.... Historic graphs: no Self-updating webpage: yes Multi project support: yes Multi project view: yes Add/remove agent machines: no =============Directly supported build tools============== Shell/command script: yes, only mode supported since ant, nant, make, and msdev studio projects can all be run from the command line =============Tools Integration ================= Bugtracking systems and source browsers and user definable by job properties defined in mysql =============Remote management api============== XML-RPC =============Installation and Configuration============= Windows installer: no Self contained distribution: no (mostly yes, but there are dependencies for perl) Additional Dependencies: mysql, perl, subversion, cvs, perforce, required perl modules identified by cabieconfig.pl Execution platform: perl (PHP for new UI) Project platform: anything that can be build from the command line Preferred build tool: any Requires modification to build scripts: some Supports multiple projects: yes Automatic configuration from build script: no Text file configuration: projects - no (mysql), errors, disclaimers, exclusion lists yes... The shots are from a non-authenticated session, an admin session and a super-admin session. (NKH: I put the images here http://khemir.net/files_for_download/cabbie/ in one big html page. Don't ask for better presentation this is my second html page and probably one of the 10 pages I'll write before I retire. I'll leave them there for a few days) I left out a few things, those that display passwords. The screenshots are for the 'interactive' sections of the cabie ui. The server is entirely in perl using rpc-xml, and the ui is in php (I figured I'd checkout php, although I'm not really great at either). It continues to be a work in progress. I have had great suggestions from a variety of companies including Facebook, just wish I could work on it full time.... Right now most of my pending changes are changes required to the cm broker to handle html for CVS and Subversion, if the project uses Perforce then what's available at the top of the tree on Tigris is ready to go... Again, since I work full time for a company that uses Perforce, that's all I've had time to complete. Anyone want to help??? If you need more info feel free to ask!, Thanks, Eric W.
