Specifying the Artifact Dependencies in TeamCity

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Since version 2.0 TeamCity allows to specify the dependencies between the results of the builds of the build configurations, i.e. artifact dependencies and provides dependent builds triggering.

When creating new builds, it’s possible to use the artifacts of:

• last pinned build,
• successful build,
• last finished build (can be useful when integrating with changes third-party libraries)
• build with a particular number

In the artifacts paths you can use regular expressions or file patters. One or several artifacts paths can be specified.
It’s also possible to specify the destination directory where the artifacts are downloaded when the build is started and configure whether to clean the catalogue before creating builds and downloading artifacts to avoid artifacts clutter.

The artifact dependencies are set up when you create or edit the build configuration:

Since TeamCity itself acts like an Ivy repository it allows you to download the artifacts using Ivy tasks or Ivy tool from the command line. The dependencies are specified in the ivy.xml configuration file, you can put the file in your CMS repository and safely test changes in this file when running personal builds. You need to download the Ivy Dependency manager from http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ and follow the steps described in TeamCity online reference.

In the latest TeamCity 3.0 EAP versions we provide a possibility to view the info on the build artifacts were used to create the build on the Build Results page:

Technorati tags: TeamCity, JetBrains, Java, .NET, IntelliJ IDEA, continuous integration, build management, agile development, artifact dependency, MS Visual Studio 2003, Ivy

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