Comments on: Automatic continuous compilation of webforms on linux/unix

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:45:04 +0000

Every time changes are made to the forms, it is a real pain ftp them to the server and compile again and test it.

Ramesh

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:40:45 +0000

It give me
FRM-91500: Unable to start/complete the build.
when i run the frmcmp.sh in crontab

By: Arjan Zeeman

Arjan Zeeman — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:52:01 +0000

The need to checkin before the form is compilated on the correct platform is not very attractive during development. I can imagine a developer does not want to wait x minute(s) before (unit)testing his/her progress on a linux/unix based environment.
Does your develop-environment support alternative ways in this? I created a specific samba-share to the development AS. Every developer was able to put sources in that share and from there the compilation-process was started every 10 seconds or so. All it takes is an extra limited user for the samba-share.

By: Andre Crone

Andre Crone — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:54:12 +0000

Why nog use make and compile only what needs recompilation?

By: Harm Verschuren

Harm Verschuren — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:01:29 +0000

Compilation is done with the application owner against the database the application is supposed to run. So, if the application is suppost to run against the testdatabase, it is conmpiled against the test database. This database schema is the same on both unix and windows.

Compilation can fail in real life, so we generate some logging facilities. An email is sent to a designated user every time the compile job runs. This email contains also the forms compiler output. Sending an email is a standard feature of the crontab facility. Adding the form compiler output to the email is something we programmed by redirecting the compiler output to the email. There is no distinct in notification between succeesful compilation and errors. The desinated user always has to look through the email to see if there are errors.

By: Lucas Jellema

Lucas Jellema — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:54:34 +0000

Harm,

Though of course it is not supposed to happen, say that compilation on the Linux server fails, for example because a different database user is used for compilation than on the Windows client. Is there a way to find out about such compilation failures?

Otherwise: great stuff and thanks a lot for sharing. (Not sure though about the ‘(remember minimize ease)!’ remark).