- SCons — build your software better
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Posted on August 9th, 2011
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A few years ago I worked on a large (60+ man-year) software project, involving C/C++ and Java. The software stack originated from demonstrator software, and its make files had become unmanageable, and even worse, unreliable. After evaluating a lot of options we rewrote the entire build system based around SCons.
A few weeks ago an ex-collaegue contacted me with some questions how we approached things back then.
Today, while attending a children's birthday party a discussion on...
- Nightly builds
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Posted on September 10th, 2003
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We have set up a
nightly build system
. Currently, it builds a
Debian
package, source tarball, and a Windows installer version. Interesting to note is that the Windows version is completely built on a GNU/Linux system, using a cross-compiler and Wine to create the final
setup.exe
.