[Anthill] Configuring multiple projects in AntHILL...

[Eric Minick]

Hi Jeevan,

I see nobody else has a real good idea for you. I'll provide some 
rougher ideas then. The fundemental problem is that the system isn't 
designed with circular dependencies in mind. Here's a look at what the 
Anthill designers were thinking about dependencies: 
http://www.urbancode.com/download/presentations/reuse/ObjectReuse.ppt .

In order to force Anthill to check out the projects first and build them 
later, you'll have to set things up oddly. I would create four projects 
which only check out the code and four projects which actually do the 
building. Your projects which only check out the code could use a dummy 
ant script or something similar. The projects which do the building 
would use the FileSystemDriver and point at where Anthill checks out the 
project. Your dependency order would like:
Checkout A
Checkout B
Checkout C
Checkout D
Build A
Build B
Build C
Build D

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Eric

Jeevan_Sunkersett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to configuring AntHill.
>
> I could successfully configure a single project and get it build with 
> Ant hill.
>
> But in our every day scenario, our team could be checking in code into 
> 4 projects.
>
> And then manually running a build, where in the developer does a cvs 
> checkout of ALL FOUR projects
>
> And then running a ant target, compile-all & test-all,
>
> Which internally compiles each individual project IN A CERTAIN ORDER 
> and then executes junit test in each project IN A CERTAIN ORDER.
>
> In Ant hill I configured the four projects individually and then 
> created a dependency group.
>
> But Ant hill does not build the projects in the group as I want them.
>
> I require ALL projects to be checked out FIRST before the build is 
> started.
>
> But Ant hill checks out and builds each project in the dependency 
> group in the defined order one by one.
>
> (this does not work for me as their exists a circular dependency among 
> the projects)
>
> Any clues what I should do?
>
> G1
>
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