[Anthill-pro] Complex Project examples

Eric Minick etm at urbancode.com
Tue Oct 9 21:31:49 CDT 2007


The normal rules of thumb for deciding between multiple projects and 
multiple jobs are the following:

Can I check out and compile the different executables independently? 
(they have different source)
Do they have a different lifecycle? (can they be reused independently)

If either answer is "yes" you probably want different projects. 
Otherwise, you probably want a single project.

Also, keep in mind that if you are going to end up with many very 
similar build steps, it might be easier to have one parameterizable job 
that you iterate over in parallel. That's getting pretty interesting, 
but we do have something like that in our testing environment. If that 
sounds attractive let me know and I'll record a short tour of how that 
is configured and post it.

-- Eric

Chris Stoy wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I’m having problems figuring out just how I should be setting up 
> Projects with Anthill. The Simple Project Configuration was a good 
> start, but I’m mostly interested in seeing how to utilize parallel 
> builds and more complex workflows.
>
> Basically, I have a group of executables that I need to compile and 
> data that needs to run through a conversion system. Most of these 
> tasks can occur in parallel. What is the best way to set up this 
> system? Do I create a single project with multiple jobs? Or would it 
> be multiple projects?
>
> Are there any examples or a more complex Project setup that I can see?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
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