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Selecting the Right Software Version Control Product Michael Feighner draws up a checklist of version-control-tool criteria to aid an organization in selecting the best tool. His goal here is to suggest a partial framework for deciding which tool best fits your needs while at the same time adhering to configuration management best practices. |
Michael Feighner
March 28, 2012 |
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Build Management Essentials: The Basics and More In theory, build management is simple. But like many aspects of IT, in reality, it's quite complex. This article introduces the basics of build management and provides a foundation on which to build further study. |
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Beyond Configuration Management into Application Lifecycle Management—Just a Change of Focus? CM is an important driver for development productivity, yet remains often overlooked when discussing how the development lifecycle could be optimized. Often, this happens because of the perceived complexity of parallel strategies and additional overhead. However, today’s CM tools offer powerful capabilities that allow users to tap into that potential. |
Mike Shepard
October 19, 2010 |
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Value of Configuration Management by Agile Professionals Mario Moreira surveyed recently surveyed agile professionals to find out just how valuable CM processes and tools are to them. While there was a noticeable difference in opinion between different responder age groups, the overall response was overwhelmingly positive in CM's favor. |
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Tips and Tricks From the Automatic Dependency Generation Masters Make's dependency syntax is flawed because it incorporates both foo.o must be updated if header.h, system.h or foo.c are changed and foo.o is the result of compiling foo.c. Thus, anything to the right of the : is a prerequisite, but the first prerequisite where there's a rule body (i.e. commands) is special: it's the prerequisite that will be passed to the compiler (or other command) to actually generate the target. |
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The Trouble with Hidden Targets Make programs are very good at keeping track of targets, files that need to be built, and the dependencies between targets. But the Make program is only as good as its inputs. If you don't tell Make about a relationship between two files, it wont discover it on its own and it'll make mistakes because it assumes it has perfect knowledge about the files and their relationships. |
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Tracing rule execution in GNU Make Who hasn't wondered what exactly Make's log file output means. This article is about Makefile tracing. I cover tracing the execution of Makefile rules. |
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Adding set operations to GNU Make The new GMSL functions include ways of testing the relationship between sets and determining whether an individual element is in a set. |
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The Basics: VPATH and vpath Ask Mr. Make talks about the uses of VPATH and vpath. |
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Learning Make with the Towers of Hanoi The Towers of Hanoi puzzle consists of a small board with three pegs on it. On the left most peg a stack of discs is arranged in descending order of size: the largest disc is on the bottom. |
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