Slides and example scripts
Posted by Alec on 8 December 2006
Update 1/Jan/08 — material can now be found at http://github.com/alecclews/svnbuilding/tree/master
I mentioned some time ago that I was writing a paper about building software under configuration managemenet control. I’ve posted the slides below that I presented at OSDC today, plus the example driver script and makefile can be download from Github.
I still hope to provide a full paper with more detail later. In the meantime please feel to use and provide feedback.
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Updated 12/Nov/08 — I’ve just noticed that Git supports the concepts of attributes. If I get enough time (don’t hold your breath) I’ll try and create some Git based examples


Alec said
Jonathan Oxer has posted his OSDC tutorial on Large Scale Webapps: Managing Releases and Dev team Infrastructure, this nicely fits over my talk on Building with Subversion above
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Kristy A. Bennett said
Completely off-topic but…
..after linking to your site with a view to preparing my paper submissions for OSDC 2009 I did the nerd quiz you illude to on your site and got the exact same score. By all accounts I am not considered a nerd by most people so I think it’s either a faulty survey or you are not as nerdy as you project! ;P
Have a good one!
Alec said
… or your friends are too polite?
Good luck with the paper. Maybe I’ll see you in BNE