[Buildbot-devel] Retrieving build results

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:31:02AM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote:
> This approach could work, although I think it would be nice to have the
> process a bit more defined in the build step configuration rather than
> in external scripts.
> 
> I guess it would be nice if you could evaluate build steps conditionally
> based on the branch, and it would be also nice if you could pass some of
> the branch, revision and 'try' state through to the build steps instead
> of having them run 'svn info' to try and figure it out.

	Well, I'm not a buildbot developer, just a user.  I'm doing what
I can to make do with the "all-the-world-is-one-repository" and so on.
If buildbot starts providing me with this info on its own, then sure I
don't have to do it in my Makefile.  I called the script
"svnrev._guess_" for a reason :-)
	That said, I'm not sure where this functionality goes.  Our
release numbers work very well for us, but might not work for others,
and if you put the policy in buildbot, you remove flexibility.
	Discuss :-)

Joel


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Joel Becker
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