[Anthill] Examples of how to update CVS Working Dir script

[Eric Minick]

Wayne,

Good questions. Probably the first place to start is to go to Main Settings ->
Edit and move your work directory out of the AnthillPro installation directory
and to a location less deep in your directory structure.

I did double check and the versioning strategy figures out the working
directory the same way that everything else does - it should run the script
again.

In case your script has problems (no compile time checking and no syntax
highlighting stinks) - search your logs for "Exception from script, using
default working directory". That might explain the funky behavior you're
seeing.

Regards,

Eric

> We have run into an issue were some of our builds on our AntHill box are
> failing because we end up with path names that are >255 characters
> (Windows XP limit) using the default AntHill configuration. (Has to do
> with building some extremely large XBEANS that have long package names.)
>
> It looks like we can update the "CVS Working Dir" script to shorted the
> value returned by baseWorkDirName, but have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Are there some examples available of other things people have done?
> 2) Is the baseWorkingDir returned by "CVS Working Dir" get passed along
> to the steps that follow? The reason I ask, is that I tried changing the
> baseWorkDirName to point to a temp directory and while the CVS step
> seemed OK the "Specificaton File Based Versioning Strategy" couldn't
> find the version control file. When I went out to look on the file
> system, I could see a directory created but it was empty.
>
> Any other suggestions on how to trim the prefixing done by AntHill would
> be appreciated. (And yes... we are working on reducing the size of some
> of the generated packages, but the schema we are generating the XBEANS
> from is part of a standards document we can't easily modify without
> breaking things for our business partners.)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Wayne L. Holmes
> Lead Software Development Engineer
> E-mail: wayne.holmes at qwest.com
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