Toward Better Builds

These days, it's getting harder use the same old build tools in the same old ways. Software is more complex, and often requires many variant builds for different platforms (especially in the embedded space). Builds now need to take into account source-code tracking for measuring compliance. Distributed development teams in different time zones, sometimes working in different programming languages, create even more complexity for build tools to cope with. Build tools haven't gotten the attention that their sexier development-tool brethren have gotten. Mike Swaine says that's about to change in his article "The Buzz About Builds."

Posted by Kevin Carlson at 12:55 PM  Permalink