Talk:Build automation

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Maybe the list of build tools should be sorted per programming language. Also, the make-like programs may be placed together. --Philippe 09:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Editing the Build Automation article

I would like to include a table with the following categories: Platform (Operating Systems, Languages), and Description Language (e.g., XML for Ant).

Eddiehu 19:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Best Practices? What is that doing here?

This section seems to be an unrelated list of software bromides. What's going on here? Mistercupcake (talk) 07:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is written in enterprise-ese and is thus unencyclopedic. It should be rewritten. - Sikon (talk) 12:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Makefiles section needs to be removed. It is uninformitive and incorrect (Ant has nothing to do with makefiles). There can be a mention of tools to aid build automation at the end. Seanblanton (talk) 19:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An aspect of SCM

An important point that is overlooked by the article is that build automation records how to build multiple variations from the same source files. This is a very important aspect of SCM (software configuration management). 124.149.187.254 (talk)

Advantages and Disadvantages

Disadvantages should be listed too, also questions, why do we need something like build tools can guide us to a interesting question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.97.9.127 (talk) 20:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Major Rewrite

This page lacked appropriate and valid citations. Content was outdated; It lacked changes that the software industry has experienced. I took out self-promotions and added updated content that is accurate and has reliable sources. Kharnagy (talk) 18:23, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Rewrite

Rewrote since:

Build automation is _not just_ the process of automating; it is that (the act of creating/configuring automation), but it is the larger practice of building in an automated way which encompasses the creating/configuring of the automation
CI is not build automation; but build automation is required for CI
Build automation was not historically accomplished via makefiles; Make is a big part of automation in the past and still is, but I don't think build automation was ever limited to Make
Just link to list of tools rather than listing some
The "Depending on the level of automation the following classification is possible" was nonsense; invented for WP

Stevebroshar (talk) 12:57, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]