[Buildbot-devel] conditional steps

[Stefan Seefeld]

Javier Somoza wrote:
> 
>             Hi all
> 
>                 Is there any way to configure conditional steps on a 
> builder?
> 
>                 For example, everytime a file of a module is changed, i 
> want to compile and pass unit tests.
>                 And if one of those files is certain file i also want to 
> generate a package.
> 
>                 Or do you know more ways to get this?

In the sake of simplicity I would not add the required complexity to
the buildbot infrastructure itself, but rather add a Step that is
performed unconditionally, but internally does whatever is required
to figure out whether actually to package or not.

Regards,
		Stefan