Re: [Cruisecontrol-devel] StarTeam Plugins

[Julian S. <sim...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 19 October 2010 17:54, Paul Coste <pau...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks Julian.  Sounds pretty straightforward.  Some additional questions:
>
>
>    - What would be the best way of getting the CruiseControl official
>    version and other information from within the code, so that I can plug it
>    into the client name?
>
>
There's a property in the build called 'cc.version' that should be available
at release time.

>
>    - Are there any guidelines about what versions of StarTeam should be
>    supported by CruiseControl?  Can we safely part ways with versions that have
>    reached end of life from a vendor support perspective?  My thoughts: the
>    next version of StarTeam Server will not support clients older than 2005 R2
>    (i.e. version 8.0); 2005 R2 itself is no longer supported, and 2006 is on
>    its way out.  I would say that supporting it back to version 2006 would be
>    preferable, but 2005 R2 might be possible.
>
>
I'd go with that. :)

Best

J.

>
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Julian Simpson <sim...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> This kind of thing seems pretty standard.  You can submit patches for
>> documentation, or code.
>>
>> http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contributions.html
>>
>>  <http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contributions.html>Having used
>> CruiseControl and StarTeam, it would be nice to lay some ghosts to rest!
>>
>> Julian.
>>
>>   On 18 October 2010 03:51, Paul Coste <pau...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>>   Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a StarTeam expert of over 12 years, and an experienced Java
>>> developer, and would like to propose some enhancements to your StarTeam
>>> plugin.  I am not sure the best way to go about this, but I would appreciate
>>> the opportunity to post code changes to the community.  The following is the
>>> list of proposed changes:
>>>
>>> 1) Add the code ClientApplication.setName("CruiseControlPlugin
>>> <version.number>") during initialization of the plugin.  This will cause
>>> this string to be the client identifier in the StarTeam application log
>>> file.  Otherwise the plugin shows as "Unknown Application."  This is very
>>> important from a standardization and administration perspective when there
>>> are many teams using StarTeam and we want to know who is using what kind of
>>> plugin.  This is also important in StarTeam 2009 and above, in order to
>>> conform with the new client connection control feature, which can block
>>> logins based on client name, SDK version, etc.  (This particular function
>>> call is supported all the way back to version 5.3, I believe, although I
>>> don't know how far back you need to go anyway, since current support for
>>> StarTeam only goes back to version 2006.)
>>>
>>> 2) I would like to address the documentation which states that the Jar
>>> file is external and not freely available.  This was true until several
>>> months ago; now the new company Micro Focus (which bought Borland) has
>>> released StarTeam Express edition which is free to up to 10 users, and for
>>> which the SDK Jar file is included fully functional.  This may actually put
>>> the StarTeam plugin back into the standard library of plugins distributed as
>>> binary, since the SourceForge team will be able to compile the library.
>>>
>>> 3) The documentation states that the StarTeam plugin is based on the
>>> command-line interface.  If this is true, the newest command-line interface
>>> now supports encrypted (i.e. obfuscated) external password files, which is a
>>> preferred way to operate, so that developers do not store clear text
>>> passwords in their build scripts or properties files, allowing these files
>>> to be safely stored in source control without compromising security.  I
>>> would like to add this as a new feature.
>>>
>>> Please let me know how I can contribute.  For my company I plan on making
>>> custom modifications, for item #1 and #3, but these should be included as a
>>> general enhancement to the community if possible.
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>> Paul Coste
>>>
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