Re: <veto> and ignoreFiles ...

On 21 July 2011 12:44, Thaddaeus Frogley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a project I'm trying to automate with CC, and I've hit on a
> problem I can't see a way of handling.
>
> I have a big project which is made up of several bits and pieces that
> need to build one after another.
>

How about a composite build (
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/main/configxml.html#composite) or a
top-level wrapper build that calls builds in the right sequence?

J.


> If something further down the dependency chain is changed I'd rather
> not build the full set of projects.
>
> For reasons outside my control, there is for all intents and purposes
> code and date mixed up in the same directory tree.
>
> One sub project is a tool that builds the data, lets call it "Editor",
> and has a modification set looks like this:
>
>        <modificationset quietperiod="30" ignoreFiles="*.XX">
>          <p4 view="//Depot/Foo/Bar/..."/>
>        </modificationset>
>
> Where "*.XX" is the data files it in turn processes.
>
> And I then have the data building sub project, that uses the
> executable built by the first sub project to build the XX data:
>
> To handle the dependency I hoped to use a modification set with a veto
> to depend on the first project being built, which might look like
> this:
>
>        <modificationset quietperiod="30">
>          <veto>
>            <triggers>
>              <p4 view="//Depot/Foo/Bar/..."/>
>            </triggers>
>            <buildstatus logdir="logs/Editor" />
>          </veto>
>
>          <p4 view="//Depot/Foo/Bar/....XX"/>
>        </modificationset>
>
> But as you can see, the veto will fail because a change to an XX file
> will "veto" the data build, thinking the Editor is out of date, since
> there doesn't seem to be any way to tell a "veto" block about a
> project's "ignoreFiles".
>
> I realise the way the files are mixed together is obscene, so please
> don't tell me to fix it by fixing that, for reasons outside my
> control, it's not an option.
>
> I just need to find a way to tell CC that one project depends on the
> other project, without causing false positives in the veto dependency
> checking.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thad
>
> --
> Thaddaeus Frogley
> Senior Programmer, Climax Games
>
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