Wednesday, October 3, 2012

CBF meets Ctools Installer

Ctools-installer and CBF are very useful projects that usually go hand in hand. And if you've been using them for a while you probably thought "why can't CBF just call ctools installer instead of having to pass the parameters manually?"


Well, Andrea Torre went ahead and sent us a patch to allow exactly that.


There are a few new targets in CBF:


ctools-installer        Install ctools (prompts for modules)
ctools-installer-auto   Install ctools silently

The difference between them is obvious - one does an automated install (passing the -y flag) while the other prompts for which plugins to install.

All you need is to call this target. Here's an example:

ant -Dproject=demo -Denv=pedro ctools-installer

We can control the behavior of this feature. It's possible to specify which branch to install (defaults to stable branch) and specify if you want ctools-installer to run after a CBF build:

ctools.install = true
ctools.branch = dev

Ty it and let us know. You need to upgrade your ctools-installer script (just run it and it will auto upgrade)

On an also important note, CBF is now also on github.
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  1. Hi Pedro,

    I included this into the build.xml file so that it could call cygwin from windows:

    < exec executable="c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" >
    < arg value="--login"/ >
    < arg value="-c"/ >
    < arg value="/cygdrive/c/cbf/ctools-installer.sh -n -y -s /cygdrive/c/cbf/project-client/solution -w /cygdrive/c/cbf/target-dist/server/webapps/pentaho"/ >
    < /exec >

    Hope it helps..

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