Re: Incremental and Release Builder Relationships

On Monday, 26 September 2011, Chris Beech wrote:

> Hi all,****
>
> ** **
>
> I have a question to ask about the relationship between an incremental
> builder and a release builder.****
>
> **
>

I think you'd need to explain what you mean with some detail (at the least,
relevant portions of config files, and logs), for anyone to be able to
 comment here.  At least, I'll need to see those to be able to comment :)

J.

> **
>
> In my CC configuration I have two projects, an incremental and release. The
> incremental runs every ten minutes (only building what it needs) and moves
> the floating label (called BUILD_LATEST) to the latest version of artifacts
> it builds (when it successfully completes).****
>
> ** **
>
> The release builder runs at 1am each morning, pulls all BUILD_LATEST
> labeled artifacts and does a complete build and deployment.****
>
> ** **
>
> We had an interesting result over the weekend whereby one of our developers
> invoked the release builder and then invoked the incremental builder. The
> result was that his latest screen wasn’t included in that release build
> because the release builder performed it’s update for all BUILD_LATEST
> labeled artifacts before the incremental could finish and move the label to
> the latest version of this screen.****
>
> ** **
>
> This result was to be as expected, however when the release builder ran at
> its scheduled time it still didn’t pick the latest version of the file up –
> the entry in the logs was that there were no modifications found.****
>
> ** **
>
> I would have expected the release builder to run even though the
> incremental builder didn’t run between the time the release builder finished
> (after being manually invoked) and it’s scheduled time because there was a
> modification, or is my understanding incorrect here?****
>
> ** **
>
> Yours in confusion,****
>
> ** **
>
> Chris****
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