I am in the process of designing a mechanism to build software from a Subversion branch/tag under strict CM control and hopefully track the build output and preserve them in Subversion as well.
The draft paper is up at http://alecclews.pbwiki.com/SubversionBuilding. Please feel free to come along and add comments
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[...] I mentioned a few days ago that I was looking to write a paper about building from Subversion using strict configuration management control. [...]
[...] I mentioned some time ago that I was writing a paper about building software under configuration managemenet control. I’ve posted the slides that I presented at OSDC today, plus the example driver script and makefile. [...]
This is really a nice initiative as most of proprietary configuration management tools have building, build auditing facilty built-in.