[Buildbot-devel] more than one factory per builder?

[Greg Ward]

> Is it possible to have more than one factory per builder? I have a set of
> "clobber" steps that run nightly from a periodic scheduler, it'd be nice to
> use the same builders but a different factory (sharing many of the same
> steps) depending on which scheduler the change came from (the other
> scheduler would be from checkins and run "depend" builds).

I haven't tried this myself, but what about just factoring out the
common build steps?  E.g. if you are using 0.7.6:

  clobber_step = ShellCommand(name="clobber", command=["clobber"])
  ...
  factory1.addStep(clobber_step)
  ...
  factory2.addStep(clobber_step)

Obviously if you have many such common steps, it might be worthwhile
to factor them out as a list and add them to each factory in a loop.
Or maybe not, if the selection/order of common build steps varies from
factory to factory.  It's up to you.  Nice having a high-level
general-purpose programming language to write config files in, isn't
it?  Can you imagine doing this in XML?  >shudder<

Greg