AnthillPro Blog - Responses

Re: A practical approach to the Rebuild Problem

Eric Minick — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:43:59 GMT

If you don't have a firm regulatory requirement to do rebuilds, I think it's just not worth the trouble. Back up your codestation repository and make sure your cleanup policies are reasonable.

Why rebuild if you still have the original build?

Now, rebuilds done as part of the lifecycle to change debugging parameters or something like that, are best done as secondary processes. I believe we have an earlier blog entry on that.

Re: A practical approach to the Rebuild Problem

Mark Melvin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:46:43 GMT

Interesting! We were just discussing this very issue yesterday in our AnthillPro design meeting. It is definitely a complex problem.

Continuous Integration Debate

Mavericks — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:20:22 GMT

There is a discussion on CI at UrbanCode here. It is a bit pedantic debating the value of build versus test. I regard a build as a fundamental test of source code self-consistency, which must pass in order to have a software product in which to perform...