build-process

I'm currently working with some developers who like to set up Ant tasks that define environment specific variables rather than using properties files. It seems they prefer to do this because it's easier to type: ant <environment task> dist Than it is to type: ant -propertyfile <environment property file> dist So for example: <project name="whatever" default="dist"> <target name="local"> <property name="webXml" value="WebContent/WEB-INF/web-local.xml"/> </target> <target name="remote"> <property name="webXml" value="WebContent/WEB-INF/web-remote.xml"/> </target> <target name="build"> <!-- build

Admitted, this doesn't sound like a best practice altogether, but let me explain. During the build, we need to paste the build number and the system version into a class whose sole purpose is to contain these values and make them accessible. Our first idea was to use system properties, but due to the volatility of the deployment environment (an other way of saying "the sysadmins are doing weird unholy creepy things") we would like to have them hard-coded. Essentially I see 4 possibilities to achieve it in ant : use <replace> on a token in the class The problem with this approach is that the

I have an application that is written in C++ that I use CMake to build and release binaries. I'd like to have the CMakeLists.txt script compile and run a CPP file that is used to timestamp and encrypt a license file after it has built the binaries for the application. I've seen examples of running the execute_process command such as this: execute_process(COMMAND "gcc -o foo foo.cpp" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}) execute_process(COMMAND "./foo" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} RESULT_VARIABLE MY_FOO_VAR) I am using Visual Studio 2010 to do the build on Windows. The

I am using Maven2 to build a WAR project. Some properties files are dependent on the environment targeted for a release. I want to deliver, in addition of the WAR, a file called datasource.xml . This file already exists in my project directory, but contains properties that will be filtered during the build (i.e. some ${foo.bar} ). In others words, after running the command mvn clean install , I want to see in my target/ directory two files, my-webapp.war and datasource.xml . Note that datasource.xml must not be included in the my-webapp.war artifact! How can I do this? You can attach

It's been a little while since I did C++ development professionally and I'd like to get caught up on what the current state of C++ development is in a number of areas. Most of my recent work has been Java, making heavy use of Maven. When I last did C++ development for work, some variant of make was widely accepted as the way to go for building C++ projects (we were also using make to do builds the Java code in our mixed Java and C++ projects, although I believe ant was starting to become mainstream). I like using Maven for builds. My question is not to debate the relative merits of using Maven