- | xenofarm project under way |
 | At Roxen Internet Software, Pike has
had an automated build and regression testing system since fall 2000 called
AutoBuild.
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| AutoBuild, bringer of Pike |
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| While AutoBuild has served well and helped maintain and improve backwards
compatibility and platform independence, as well as give prompt notice about
additions that break the most recent CVS version of Pike from building and/or
running the testsuite without encountering errors, the system has also had its
share of flaws and annoying shortcomings, not to mention the pain of manually
keeping the system running. The never ending maintenance and human labour that
was needed to keep the system breathing with the rather overevolved and
iteratively kludged code base motivated a rewrite, and now we are finally
under way.
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| Xenofarm, successor of AutoBuild |
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| In preparation of the forthcoming Pike move, we started from scratch on a
worthy successor for the system, revisiting some design thoughts and redoing
right all of those things that we learned from AutoBuild that were not, while
at the same time extending the scope from just building Pike to making a
system that could be deployed for building just about anything, or indeed
carrying some other kind of work payload alltogether, distributed over any
number of machines across the internet.
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| Build the World |
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| You will probably see Xenofarm put to
use in lots of interesting different contexts in the future, apart from building
and testing Pike. Your imagination sets the limit. Xenofarm aims for being the
really comfortable and easy-to-deploy system for distributing work across the
net for the entire world of free software development. Stay tuned for what the
future holds for us.
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