developerWorks: Automate the Application Build and Distribution Process

“You have enough to consider when building an open source
application for a single type of system, but what if you’re
building that application for distribution among a range of
different, incompatible machines? There’s no easy answer, but using
a little discipline and some custom scripts, you can simplify the
process. This article looks at how to create a structure for
building and distributing applications, including heavily
customized versions, and a simple way of disseminating the
applications among a number of machines, manually or automatically,
as easily as possible…”

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