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What is alchemy Builder?

alchemy builder is a compare, build, and release tool for managing multiple builds of the alchemy framework. The program is named farmer. It is a written in Perl.

Below are the functions available in farmer.

C:\webroot\public_html\alchemy_builder>perl farmer.pl

******************* farmer functions ******************************************
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Command  Desc/Example
-------  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
compsys  compsys 
         example: >perl farmer.pl compsys alchemyTEST
         compare two alchemy builds and produce a report of file/dir differences
               = .pkg name in comparein.

compincr compincr 
         example: >perl farmer.pl compincr incr_alchemyTEST
         compare two alchemy builds and produce a report of the file/directory
         differences with respect to an incremental update manifest.

dirlst   dirlst  
         Helper function that given a root dir point returns a list of all
         subdirs to a text file. can be used to build a robust compare package
         to emulate compsys function, but using compincr as a 2-way compare

cArch    cArch   
         example: perl farmer.pl cArch alchemyBLDTST.zip c:\webroot\public_html\alchemy\* a
         Archive a target build.
cBuild   cBuild  
         example: >perl farmer.pl cBuild alchemyTEST.zip alchemyTEST
         Create new build, or build locally (to prepare for configuration)
alcConf  alcConf  
         example: perl farmer.pl alchemyTEST alchemyTEST
         Configure an archive build. This step is specific to alchemy.

iBuild   iBuild  
         update an existing alchemy target system with an incremental update.
         example: perl farmer.pl iBuild builderTEST-RESULTS-REPORT-1301928520

rDeploy  rDeploy  
         Remote FTP Deployer.
connlist Provide a list of available ftp connections

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Licensing

In wanting to give you the best options possible this work (alchemy) is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.

Essentially the license allows you to use this code in commercial applications. You hold me harmless from any liability regarding this code and how you use it. You pretty much can modify the code to suit your specific needs. You just need to give credit to me as the originator of the code that you are working with.

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