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BuildIT gets a review … and an award

Thanks go to Timothy Trimble and his review of BuildIT:
The ART of Software Development Awards – BuildIT

Its soo nice to get feedback, I do like to read user comments so please continue and I will do my best to keep up with requests in making BuildIT the product for you!

I would like to comment on some of Tim’s points…

• Copying and Moving whole folders recursively is a very good point, I will add that in next.

 

• Yes, help and documentation is severly lacking … I really must get my act together and do this, without it people are missing some of the really useful ‘hidden’ features like special macros that can be used in all tasks:
  $YYYY$ = replace with 4 digit year
  $MM$ = replace with 2 digit month
  $DD$ = replace with 2 digit day
  etc.   

  A full list of the macros supported can be found from the Help menu in BuildIT.

  Also, unlike other tools, BuildIT comes with a command line version “buildit.com” as standard. You can even use the “Schedule Run” command (Run menu) to auto-generate a task in Windows Task Scheduler with the appropriate options for running your build file using the command line tool.