[jifty-devel] Now available, a shipwright build of Jifty.

[Andrew Hanenkamp]

Awesome.

Cheers,
Andrew

On 2/14/08, Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
>
> Five lines to go from zero to a running Jifty:
>
>
> svn co http://code.bestpractical.com/shipwright/jifty/ jifty-builder
> cd jifty-builder
> ./bin/shipwright-builder  # optionally --skip-perl --skip test
> cp -rvp /tmp/jifty-$random/jifty /usr/local/jifty
> ln -s /usr/local/jifty/bin/jifty /usr/local/bin/jifty
>
>
> A little bit about Shipwright, our new code packaging tool
>
> Like any opensource software shop, we distribute the source code
> for our software. How's that for the obvious statement of the decade?
>
> Actually, I can beat it. It's a pain in the neck for end users to
> collect and install all of the dependencies for our software.
>
> And now I'm going to one-up myself again.  Customers often build
> our software against untested versions of libraries, making debugging
> 'frustrating.'
>
> RT, our flagship product, depends on 124 separate packages, 114 of
> them CPAN libraries. While CPAN has pretty good support for recursively
> installing dependencies, it's not perfect and can be time consuming
> and confusing for end users. And when it doesn't work right, as can
> happen when a module author makes an incompatible change, debugging
> requires a wizard.
>
> We've built a new source (and binary) packaging system called
> Shipwright.  Shipwright allows you to track all of your package's
> dependencies in a version control repository like SVN or SVK as
> well as build order and build instructions.
>
> It comes with tools for importing Perl modules, C libraries and
> other dependencies from CPAN, upstream version control repositories
> and tarballs. When it can discover dependency information (as it
> can for Perl modules), Shipwright will automatically import the
> current versions of all listed dependencies if the repository doesn't
> already contain sufficient versions.
>
> Shipwright can automatically set up build instructions for projects
> using autoconf as well as projects using Perl's MakeMaker,
> Module::Install and  Module::Build mechanisms. If necessary, you
> can customize the build instructions and dependency ordering after
> you import a package.
>
> When it's time to ship your project to your end users, all you need
> to do is take a snapshot of your Shipwright repository and send it
> out. To build your project, an end user just needs to run
> "./bin/shipwright-build". If they want to, your users can choose
> to skip certain dependencies (if they want to use system versions)
> or specify an installation path.  By default, Shipwright builds
> fully relocatable binary distributions into a temporary directory
> and users can move them into place or copy them to any number of
> hosts with the same base system libraries -- Shipwright automatically
> wraps all your binaries and scripts so that they can find the
> Shipwright versions of their dependencies, no matter where you move
> the installed distribution.  Shipwright also comes with sh and tcsh
> scripts you can 'source' to add an installed distribution's libraries
> to your current environment.
>
> At Best Practical, we've configured most of our Shipwright distributions
> to bundle everything above libc. Perl, Subversion and GD are just
> some of the packages we distribute as part of these relocatable
> builds.  We now have a single-command tool to build, link and install
> Subversion, SVK and all their dependencies (including APR, Neon,
> Perl and a bunch of others).  With a single command, we downloaded,
> extracted, checked in and tested Tatsuhiko Miyagawa's Plagger Feed
> Aggregator and all 134 perl modules it depends on. After that, a
> single command built a full binary distribution of Plagger, ready
> for deployment on any Mac OS X system.
>
> I'm quite proud to release Shipwright 1.0 today. I designed Shipwright
> with sunnavy, one of the hackers here at Best Practical.  He's
> responsible for almost all of the project's implementation to date,
> though we're eager to have additional developers join us going forward.
>
> If you're interested in Shipwright, download 1.0 from
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shipwright and subscribe to the Shipwright
> mailing list by emailing shipwright-subscribe at lists.bestpractical.com
>
> You can always get the latest version of the Shipwright source code
> with this command:
>
> svn co svn://svn.bestpractical.com/Shipwright/trunk
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