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jadill33@gmail.com writes:

> [N]on-negligible projects need some kind of *repeatable* build
> process, independent of the whims of individual developers.
> [...]  In my work, developers are not the final builders of the
> end-product, it's configuration management, [...].
>
> When I came on, the old procedures were a badly formatted
> document with a laundry list of manually written commands for
> source control and building an application whose components
> were written in multiple languages using multiple IDEs.  [...]

Clearly that situation is pretty awful, but a build environment
that doesn't accommodate multiple development environments is a
sorry excuse for a build environment.