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Subject: RE: Doing patch builds
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:02:14 -0700
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Thread-Topic: Doing patch builds
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From: "Anderson, Rob (Global Trade)" <Rob.Anderson@nike.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>
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I would discourage you from persuing a patch build solution. I would =
suggest that a patch build be treated as an entire new build. There are =
several advantages to this approach.

1. The build and deployment process is always the same.
2. The person doing the build and deploy does not need to know what has =
changed, and therefore will not need to do anything differently in order =
to deploy the build.
3. The build will move through your environments as a single unit. This =
will ensure that the changes are tested and deployed together with their =
dependecies, etc.

-Rob A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: S I [mailto:xiamak@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:19 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Doing patch builds
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> Hi
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> I was hoping someone could put me on the right track please.
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> I finally automated my whole build and deployment as well as=20
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> handle branch builds.  Now I need to write code to handle=20
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> I'm not sure how to go about doing a build that looks into=20
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> deliverables and=20
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> replace the files on the live site?  Any ideas?
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> Thank you
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> Steven
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