Automating the Creation of Traceable and Reproducible Releases
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
As I previously mentioned, I hope to give something back to the Mac development community that is so supportive. In that spirit, I’m releasing the Perl script, under the MIT license, that I use export NewsHawker. I have learned, at times the hard way, that every build that you give to others must be traceable and reproducible. That is, you must be able to determine easily exactly which software someone has on their computer and you must be able to recreate that exact software. This is critical when supporting customers or debugging issues. …
