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Chapter 16. Using TeamConnection to package a product

After you have built an application to your satisfaction, it is time to distribute it to users. This chapter describes how you can use TeamConnection to help automate the packaging and distribution steps.

TeamConnection provides the following:

vTwo electronic software distribution tools:

±Gather, which moves an application's parts into a single directory in preparation for distribution.

±Tivoli Software Distribution, a bridge tool that automates the installation and distribution of software or data using Tivoli software distribution tools as the distribution vehicle.

vTwo sample build scripts for connecting the Gather and Tivoli Software Distribution tools with TeamConnection user-de®ned builders.

±Gather - gather.cmd which speci®es theteamcpak gather command.

±Tivoli - softdist (on UNIX platforms) or softdist.exe (on Windows NT) which speci®es theteamcpak softdist command.

To use TeamConnection in packaging a product, you might do any of the following tasks:

Task

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Setting up your application's build tree for packaging

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Using the teamcpak gather command

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Writing a package ®le for the gather tool

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Using the teamcpak softdist command

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teamcpak

 

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Tivoli Software

 

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Writing a package ®le for the Tivoli Software Distribution tool

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package ®le for

 

Tivoli Software

 

Distributionº on

 

page 217

 

 

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