Build-, Version-, Configuration- and Sourcecodemanagement,

Lately I found myself talking about buildmanagement and configuration management a lot. And since this blog lies deserted in the wild anyway I think this is the perfect place to ramble about that stuff so I can point other at some more ressources than I can right now. (And of course other can point me to my own ramblings if I get lost in the discussion)

Topics I’d like to discuss (although this probably wont ever come to an end) include simple, practical, down to earth things like

• The simplest way to set up svn to work with xcode for a small workgroup
  
• How to set up (any) DVCS for XCode
  
• How does SCM-integration work in XCode
  

but also things that seem to be intuitive to some but controversial to others

• Command line builds
  
• To branch or not to branch
  

and more conceptual topics (the most important to me) as

• Releases, Versions, Variants and other “Numbers”
  
• What is Multi-Dimensional SCM
  
• Staging and promoting 
  

Stay tuned for the first episode in about a week (and nudge me if I havent published it in two weeks!)

Cheers
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