[p4] Deployment files in Perforce or Maven?

[Heck, Joe]

This kind of choice is very particular to your organization. In our
case, we started with a jars and so forth scattered about our
infrastructure, moved a while ago to start using a common location in
Perforce, and most recently have moved to Maven2 - but not because of
storage, more because it significantly helped with dependency maps and
knowing what was going into any given application.

-joe

-----Original Message-----
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vegard.setrenes at telenor.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:47 AM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] Deployment files in Perforce or Maven?

Hi,

In my department we use Perforce on all Java development, and we have
been following the "best practice" of not storing anything in the depot,
other than what's necessary to do a build. In other words, we don't
check in binary archive files like EARs and JARs.

The source code for one of our systems was imported from cvs one year
ago. We have some deployment scripts that depend on retrieving EARs and
JARs from dedicated deployment directories in the same old cvs. These
scripts copy the deployment files to multiple test or production
servers.

To be able to finally get rid of the cvs base, we are looking for the
best way of keeping the deployment files. Should we use Perforce or a
web based Maven repository?

It is clear that we do not need all historic revisions of the files. We
are just looking for a good way to make them available for the automated
deployment scripts. So I guess we could specify the +S modifier for a
designated part of the Perforce depot. But ideally there should be a way
to keep just the N last revisions, making it possible for the deployment
scripts to do rollbacks. Is this possible without using the obliterate
command?

How do you organize your deployment files in your organization?

Thanks,

- Vegard

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