Sneak Preview - SmallCruise for Dolphin

Hi Guys,

I've been in the background working on a more polished Continuous Integration
application to try and help me automate more of what I do in my other spare
time.

Anyway - leveraging some of the other OpenSource tools around like CC.net,
TortoiseSvn and Subversion I have put together something that could potentially
be interesting.

Before writing it all up and putting together some instructions, I recorded
a screencast of SmallCruise in action. I'm interested in people's impressions
- is it interesting enough to warrent the time for instructions and final
polish?

Screencast at: http://www.macta.f2s.com/Thoughts/SmallCruise.htm

Tim

p.s. Thanks to Bill Dargel for some of the original code, Chris Uppel, Ian
B. and many others for contributing tidbits along the way

This looks totally excellent. It's certainly something I'd  use a lot. I'm
all for continuous integration. I'm also rather interested in your
Subversion add-in.  

You're the man.

The Brave Sir Robin.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:45:10 +0000 (UTC), Tim M <[hidden email]> wrote:
RUN AWAY !!!

Tim M,

IntelliDolphin looks very helpful for speeding up the coding.
I don't work as a team, so no comment for the SmallCruise.

You are delivering values to the Dolphin community. Great job, Tim.

BTW, does this work on my community edition D6?


Howard J. Oh

Hi Howard,

> IntelliDolphin looks very helpful for speeding up the coding. I don't
> work as a team, so no comment for the SmallCruise.

Actually I use SmallCruise as a single developer, every time I commit my
changes its nice to have some security that in the background it launches
those images and checks my stuff in a clean environment along with the tests.
Sometimes I find myself running in an image for months (especially as I do
my stuff part time, so I steal an hour here and there and then save my image)
but I know that I should be checking everything is ok in a clean environment.
So I think single developers will benefit a lot.

I'm also hoping that we might be able to use some of these open source tools
to kickstart a stronger Dolphin community where things get finished and versioned
off in a known place (read - a labeled Subversion repository) - but that
piece I'm still kicking around.


> BTW, does this work on my community edition D6?

Smallcruise works in either - you will just need your registered images (then
you run a script to configure them) and then you create a CC.net project
which will run them. I am using to check Intelli-Dolphin in both environments.

The latter bit answers your question, Intelli will work in the Community
edition, some features just won't be available. I am expecting to have the
next versions of both available next week.

Tim