Requirements of A Build System
Basic requirements:
- Frequent or overnight builds to catch problems early.
- Support for Source Code Dependency Management
- Incremental build processing
- Reporting that traces source to binary matching
- Build acceleration
- Extraction and reporting on build compile and link usage
Optional requirements:
- Generate release notes and other documentation such as help pages
- Build status reporting
- Test pass or fail reporting
- Summary of the features added/modified/deleted with each new build
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Famous quotes containing the words build and/or system:
“Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)