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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:19:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: Use of Sleep
From: David Weintraub <qazwart@gmail.com>
To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org>
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Eric Fetzer <elstonkers@yahoo.com> wrote:

> A good piece of the time, David, is allocated to check out of A LOT of
> code.  It also ftp's some very large files over a WAN.  As I take over these
> builds, I will be digging further in where all the time is going, but for
> now, I'm just trying to get rid of totally unnecessary aspects of the build.


I normally don't have Ant do my checkouts since you first have to checkout
the build.xml file to do the initial checkout. We use Hudson for our
continuous integration, and Hudson handles the checkouts for us. That way, I
don't even have to define a checkout task in our build.xml file. (See <
http://hudson.dev.java.net/>). You might want to switch from checkouts to
updates since updates only update changed files, and don't checkout
everything from scratch again.

There are specific Ant checkout tasks for various version control systems,
but I usually don't find them any faster than <exec>. Unless the <exec> task
runs in the background (spawn="true"), it should wait for the <exec> task to
complete. That means you shouldn't be having <sleep> tasks to wait for the
checkout to complete.

You normally run an <exec> task in the background when you're doing things
like starting up a server, so you can run your tests. Otherwise, the default
is to wait for the <exec> command to complete. BTW, there is a "timeout"
parameter for the <exec> task that can help kill an otherwise lollying
program, but it has a bit of trouble on Windows sytems.

Best of luck speeding up your build. When I first got to my current job,
builds took 30+ minutes to complete. I rewrote the build.xml file from
scratch, and speeded it up to only "12 minutes". Meanwhile, we've pulled
projects out of our main build, and each one of these build in under 2 or 3
minutes. The "big" project still takes about 9 minutes to build. Not where
I'd like it, but much better than it was before.

My experience shows that when builds take forever, developers simply don't
test as well, and your code gets sloppier.

-- 
David Weintraub
qazwart@gmail.com

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