[fpc-pascal] Re: New FPCUnit db results writer: testdbwriter: request for... testing

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2012-10-19 15:52, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 
> [1] http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Jenkins

I've only heard about Jenkins since your recent post. I only read the
overview on the wiki, but will investigate this further.

I thought I would also mention something we use in our company.

We use Git repositories, and have custom git hook scripts to create
release builds for our software.

eg:
  - we develop and push commits as normal
  - one day we decide to create a new build. We then create a tag
    "build" and push it to our server
  - the git hook script detects the "build" tag, then
    does a checkout of that revision and starts creating
    a new release of our software.
  - The release can even be packaged as a zip archive or as
    a setup.sh or setup.exe  These setups or zip archives are
    placed in a location for easy download. eg: a SMB share or
    ftp location.
  - Once the release is done, the "build" tag is removed on
    the server.

We have found this very convenient and useful. Anybody can trigger a new
release and get easy access to the final setup/archive.

Regards,
  - Graeme -