Re: [Ccnet-user] CruiseControl.NET 0.7 RC-1 Released

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:14:35 -0500, Bryan D. Andrews
<bandrews-CwLRx0LOCst3bUkKE9cNANBPR1lH4CV8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you speak a little to this release?
> 
> Is Subversion or Vault on the list of the "bootstrapless"?

No, but Subversion auto-get-source will probably be in for 0.7.1.
Neither Owen or I have access to a Vault server so that won't be in
unless someone contributes it (which of course we'd more than happily
accept :) )

CVS, Perforce and VSS now are 'bootstrapless' though. In fact
CCNetLive is using autoGetSource and automatic labelling against its
CVS server (sourceforge).

> Can you tell us what the status is on the web application and other
> goodies that we might have to give up moving to this build?

So for those that don't know, the Web Dashboard now has in-build
reporting features that allow one web-app to report mutliple projects
from multiple build servers (even if they are on a different machine).
However, this work is still in development - 2 key drawbacks right now
are:
- The webURL still has to be set in the project configuration and it
is rather complicated
- Some features (e.g. FxCop integration) still aren't ported
Because of these drawbacks, the 'standalone' reporting web app is
still the recommended one, but if you can deal with the drawbacks the
extra features in the web dashboard are probably worth it (we use it
at http://ccnetlive.thoughtworks.com/ccnet/ )

The Web Dashboard *also* has experimental new features for UI-based
project configuration but these really are in early days, and only
supported for Perforce environments.

See 
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Web+Dashboard+Reporting+Features
for more details.

Other (biggish) changes are:
- State Manager: it automatically works for multiple project servers
now so you can forget about it
- XmlLogger: automatically sorts out an appropriate log directory for
you, even on multi-project servers
- Introduction of Project Working Directories to make relative paths
easier (but this isn't complete for all SCM plugins)
- Lots of documentation updates - I didn't finish everything I wanted
to on this, but hopefully the docs are in a significantly better state
than they were.

Does that nakes things clearer?

Mike

-- 
mike roberts | http://mikeroberts.thoughtworks.net/ |
http://www.thoughtworks.com/


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