Tony’s Blog

I have been working on setting up the new automated build system. We were having some hardware problems with the new server which was very unfortunate. Denrei tracked it down to the new gigabit NIC I installed. For now we are going to revert back to the 100 Mbit onboard NIC. Despite those problems the build system seems to be working well. The server seems stable so I am finishing the automatic game source asset creation. The build system notifies developers through email about updates to the distributed files. This is a good method for keeping developers up to date on the status of distributed files but it is still far too slow. If a developer is using files which are changing then they need to know immediately when those files change. This led us to create a small utility called SNTask. It’s a small application which sits in the task bar. It shows developers the build system’s status in real-time so they will know immediately when there have been changes to files they are working with.