[p4] Perforce and Apache

[Jeff Jensen]

If you are reworking the build, an option is to switch to Maven, which
involves less "scripting" (as in Ant) and more configuring.  You do the same
actions with Maven, regardless of SCM.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Qazwart
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:29 PM
To: Melissa
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Perforce and Apache

Yes, there are Perforce tasks in Ant, and I understand they have fewer
errors in them than the once in Nant. Unfortunately, except for the Ant
manual, there really isn't too much information on how to use them.

The biggest problem between converting from Visual SourceSafe Ant tasks to
Perforce Ant tasks is that VSS and P4 operate so differently that it isn't
easy to change where you used a VSS task into a Perforce Ant task.

You can set p4client, p4user, p4port as either Ant properties, or by setting
them as attributes in the various Perforce Ant tasks.  
However, you're better off setting P4CONFIG in your environment and setting
a P4CONFIG file that defines these values.

The strange thing is the way changelists are handled. If you're going to
submit changes to your Perforce depot, I highly recommend you run the
"p4change" task. This will set the property "p4.change" which can then be
used in the "p4edit", "p4delete", "p4add", and "p4submit"  
tasks. You cannot run the "p4submit" task on the default changelist.

On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Melissa wrote:

> Doesn't Ant have Perforce tasks?? It does, because I know that the 
> Perforce tasks in Nant were modeled on Ant's Perforce tasks. Ant's 
> should work better than Nant's because there are a few conceptual 
> errors in Nant's.
> You can't
> return a change list number in a variable like you can in Ant, for 
> example.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Eramo, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:22 PM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Perforce and Apache
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>
> Hello,
>
>    Other then the Ant User guide, has anyone out there found more 
> information on how to try and do Apache Ant builds with Perforce.
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> I am finding it hard trying to migrate our Vss based build scripts to 
> Perforce and I am just trying to locate some more robust information 
> then what is in the Ant guide.
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> Any help or input would be appreciated.
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> Regards,
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> Mark
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