Likelihood to Recommend GNU Make is a great tool for simple builds where language-specific options are not available, or to provide shortcuts for common commands (e.g., "make build" as shorthand for "go build ..." with a bunch of flags). However, it is complementary to other build systems. It does not replace them, which is perhaps one of its greatest strengths as well (works with existing ecosystem instead of trying to do everything). GMU Make it simple to get started with, and the philosophy of understanding how sources map to outputs, as well as the dependency graph, are beneficial.
Read full review It works at scale and a large number of accessible pipelines for searching, repository updates and indexing will become easier. JFrog provides end-to-end solutions for all DevOps needs. With this, Jfrog Artifactory specifically implements the management of highly available repositories, with a smooth interface and integration with all the main CI tools on the market.
Read full review Pros Performance and accuracy of cross-module dependencies. Simple to write and easy to understand. Read full review Artifactory Management acting as a repository manager of docker images, application and component dependencies Automate pipelines and thereby releasing changes faster Supports high availability and scalability with multi site replication Read full review Cons No dependency management tools (but there are no cross-platform tools of this type anyway) Tedious to do cross-compilation (Debug & Release builds, 32- and 64-bit builds, x86/ARM builds) Read full review We can always use support for more different types of packages in Artifactory. We also would like to see the Artifactory X-Ray produce continue to mature. Read full review Usability The main problem that seems intractable is getting the checksum of the artifact. Managing container artifacts is a game changer for us during project execution, as the container artifact type exposes all base image and Docker file steps. This makes debugging or analysis easier. Jfrog Artifactory provides promotion feature and can automated from one environment repo to another environment repo before the deployment occurs.
Read full review Support Rating In general, it is fair to say the support is sufficient although we do not deal with support directly. There are a lot of forum people chiming in with suggestions or recommendations of particular usage or issues we run into. Since it is open software, patch and fixes will be available from time to time. A lot of information is available in the web now for knowing GNU Make from learning, example, teaching, etc.
Read full review Support tickets take days to respond. The most basic of questions that should be knocked out in a few hours don't get answers for days. Tickets are also closed without resolution.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I'm a full-stack developer that has used various build tools, including Maven,
Gradle , and NPM/yarn. For our C projects, I also investigated CMake and Ninja, but they seemed more difficult to learn and more tedious to work with. GNU Make is a single binary that can be easily downloaded, even for Windows under MingW32, is straightforward to learn, and works pretty well despite its age.
Read full review JFrog Artifactory has a much more friendly GUI, making package exploration less of a chore to do. Other than that, their features are pretty much comparable to each other. Both support multiple types of packages; both have API that can integrate well with CI/CD pipelines.
Read full review Return on Investment Streamline the build based on a lot of existing component being done, reusable. Commonly understandable, therefore, rampup effort is small. Read full review So many times it happens at the time of dependency resolution some of the servers are down e.g NPM, Maven central, PiPy in that cause our builds starts failing. By proxying these repositories with JFrog this is never happened again. It reduced the additional cost of container image registry and management effort. Support of integration with Build, Monitoring, and CI tools resulted in smooth automation and management. Read full review ScreenShots