[p4] Build tools

[Brough, Nicolas (Contractor)]

Hi Chuck

We acquired Buildforge a couple of months ago, and so far we've found it
covers your "one console" and "cross platform" requirements superbly,
and off-the-shelf.  

We had problems with reliability at first, but this was entirely due to
our configuration (our "we'll only read the instructions if we get
stuck" attitude didn't help) and it's running flawlessly now.  The
support people were excellent in pointing out where we'd gone wrong

We've not explored the "reuse of components" a lot, but the ability to
clone the projects, and run the same project with different environments
is already making life a lot easier.  I'm starting to look into the
chaining of steps and projects though, and this looks promising for the
reuse as well.

I'd also add that the ability to read logs almost as they are being
written is great (the output from builds is fed back to the console,
which happily displays updates when you hit refresh) and the ability to
run only selected steps and rerun steps within a project really helps
the debugging!

However, it does feel rather expensive compared with AnthillPro and
others.  But I'd say it's worth it, especially if you have a lot of
projects or very different servers to work with. 

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Emary
Sent: 27 February 2006 15:09
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] Build tools

Hello,

We have been using AnthillPro for our build tool, and have decided that
the time has come to look at other options.  I was curious what other
Perforce users would recommend.  Our nightly builds run for 3-4 hours on
3 different machines.  Other requirements:

 

1)       Reuse of build components

2)       One console for build management, across multiple machines.

3)       Must be able to kick off builds on windows, Unix and Linux
machines.

4)       Reliability - this is our big issue right now

 

 

Cheers,

 

Chuck Emary
Software Configuration Manager,

Configuresoft, Inc.
Security. Compliance. Control.
www.configuresoft.com <http://www.configuresoft.com> 

 

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