Thanks for you interest. Immediately before the tutorial session, I posted all of the materials that were used here: http://sites.google.com/a/onefreevoice.com/build_and_release/

The materials included instructions on how to work through the examples in PDF format, and a tgz with some files that were used.

Although the software versions might be a bit out of date now (this was almost a year ago), you should be able to follow through the examples and get a good idea about how the process works.

Of course, if you have specific questions you can post them here and I’d be happy to try to help.

Thanks in advance
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ABHI

Bottom line – I think using GNU Make is an excellent idea. If it is something that you are more comfortable with than other tools, or if your application development is compiling with Make then it should prove to be the best tool for your job. I think you’ve already shown that the tool can do what you want it to do – or you wouldn’t be using it.

The one thing that Maven does nicely is integrate with source control. You can configure it so that when you create a package, it first creates a tag or snapshot in your repository, then it uses that tag for the build. This ensures that at any given point in time, there is no confusion about which version of the code is in your build.

I would be curious to know if Make has this ability.

that sounds very interesting to me. Currently we are using GNU make to update triggers, views, stored procedures and schema changes or to create a new database setup from the scratch, but i would like to know watch is your opinion on that point! Unfortunately I am sitting in Germany and will not have the time to travel to Santa Clara, so is there a chance that your speech or slides will appear online? Would be very nice…

Greets,
Dennis