Automated builds now available

[Don Brown]

My company, Atlassian, makes a Continuous Integration build server,
called Bamboo, which checks out your code, compiles it, and runs the
tests, automatically. We run a free instance for Open Source
projects, so I created a plan for the TWX BBS project. What this will
do is build TWX Proxy (I'll add one for the applet client later), run
the tests, and make available a built binary after every commit.

This means, as a non-developer, you can download the absolute latest
TWX BBS at any time and give it a go. The format will be a ".jar"
file, which I believe is executable on Windows with Java 6 installed,
or if on Linux, type "java -jar twxbbs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar". I'll write
up proper docs this weekend.

The server is here:

http://opensource.bamboo.atlassian.com/browse/TWX-BBSTR

To access the latest binary, click on the latest build (TWX-BBSTR-4 at
the time of this writing), click on the "Artifacts" tab, then click on
the "Binary" link. I'm hoping to get this process simplified, so we
can have a simple link on the main project page, but this'll work for
now.

The binary for the TWX-BBSTR-4 build is:

http://opensource.bamboo.atlassian.com/download/TWX-BBSTR/artifacts/build-4/Binary/twxbbs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Don

[EP]

Wow, have I mentioned that you are incredible?!

[EP]

These builds exclude the TWX source though, right?

[Don Brown]

Yes, these are just binary builds. I'd like to set up builds for
TWXProxy as well, but I don't think I can get the compiler to run on
linux and build everything headless.

Don

[Patrick Reynolds]

CodeGear did release a command line build utility recently for the Turbos, but I think it required the paid for version.  I'll investigate further.  Not sure that will help though.