CruiseControl will do this for you. Setup a CVS bootstrapper to grab
the latest project.xml, etc. before running the build.
Kim
On Sep 30, 2004, at 5:39 AM, Colin Hawkett wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to work out how best to use maven for the project
structures we have. Basically we run a lot of large projects, using
WSAD as the development environment. We do not want to use maven for
the development process. There a number of reasons for this, but
generally it is because customers are often involved in the development
process, and the whole WSAD development/test run on server thing works
well for them.
What we do want to do is use maven for our nightly builds of all our
projects. So we have everything in cvs in structure not identical to
the one recommended by maven, but we aren't in a position to modify
that
structure for the same reasons we will not be using maven to build
within our development environment.
So here we are with an empty build box and a server we want to deploy
all our projects to run all the test etc. and produce the project
website. So we need the project.xml to run maven against -> which is
in
CVS with each particular project -> which contains the information
about
connecting to CVS.... A bit of a chicken and the egg thing going on
here...
It looks like we need a wrapper process around the whole thing to
control getting everything out of CVS and then running Maven against
all
of those project.xml files....
First question - am I missing something really obvious here?
Second question - assuming I'm not missing something really obvious,
whats do people recommend for this wrapper process? Some things I have
considered are
1. Plain old ANT (weren't we throwing that away?) checks out each
project, and runs maven against the project.xml we just checked out
2. Cruise Control?
3. Anthill?
4. Maven? Do we make the build of all these projects another maven
project? From what I can see with what I have done in Maven - this
doesn't seem right, e.g. how to handle the fact that all these projects
are in different CVS repositories?
At the moment option 1 seems the easiest - but I can't help feeling
that
I'm missing something here.
Anyway - I'm sure this must be a problem people have come across and
found good ways of dealing with - any pointers would be welcome -
cheers,
Colin
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