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arsenaultk9
arsenaultk9

Reputation: 31

Automated build single developer

I know this may be overkill for a single developer solution (personal project and not yet enterprise software), but I was wondering how to better respond to my needs.

I would be needing to accomplish the following:

I know that automated build software such as Jenkins are easily capable of doing the previous (even on the same machine as committed?), but I was wondering if lighter solutions are available. Ex: Post-commit actions on the repository?, scripts?, planned tasks etc...

Edit

Forgot to mention that I was using a Windows machine with a c# project running nunit tests. I use visual studio 2012 to compile solution and run tests with nunit. I use tortoise svn and Ank svn as repository browser.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 112

Answers (2)

gbjbaanb
gbjbaanb

Reputation: 52659

Use Jenkins - no reason not to, considering its reasonably lightweight itself (despite being a java app). Its very self-contained too, backup involves stopping the Jenkins service and copying the installation directory so it's not going to pollute your OS.

Anything else you come up with is going to be too complex (in terms of maintaining a bundle of scripts, scheduled tasks and so on) or just as 'heavyweight'. You might as well save your time and use the tool that fits from the start.

Upvotes: 0

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

You might make a crontab(5) entry to periodically (e.g. daily) run your build or tests.

I have a crontab entry invoking some shell script to fetch the source tree by svn or git version control in a fresh place and build it daily.

You could consider using inotify(7) facilities, perhaps thru incron, to have a test run as soon as you modify some file (e.g. an executable).

Look also at D.Moreno's garlic project (which I never used).

You could also simply have some Makefile targets for tests, and run them from emacs. I have 

(load-library "compile")
(global-set-key [f8] 'recompile)

in my ~/.emacs so I just compile things by pressing the F8 key in my emacs editor.

Upvotes: 2

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