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FinalBuilder vs psake: What are the differences?
What is FinalBuilder? Automating your Build process. With FinalBuilder you don't need to edit xml, or write scripts. Visually define and debug your build scripts, then schedule them with windows scheduler, or integrate them with Continua CI, Jenkins or any other CI Server.
What is psake? A build automation tool written in PowerShell. It is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts.
FinalBuilder and psake belong to "Automated Build Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by FinalBuilder are:
- Graphical Interface
- Scheduled Builds
- Flow Control
On the other hand, psake provides the following key features:
- Build automation tool
- Avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML
- Easier to script
psake is an open source tool with 1.23K GitHub stars and 256 GitHub forks. Here's a link to psake's open source repository on GitHub.
Cons of FinalBuilder
- No way to undo actions in the editor1
- Hard to solve merge conflicts1