[Buildbot-devel] Changing the upload filename on each build

[Ben Hearsum]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> You'll want to derive from FileDownload and probably just override the
>> __init__ method.
>>
>> class MyNewDownload(FileDownload):
>>     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
>>         FileDownload.__init__(self, **kwargs)
>>         # from here, you can alter slavedest however you please
> 
> Thanks. I had not recognized that the build step constructor is executed
> at build time, not at configuration time.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 

Actually, that reminds me. That will not be true in the next version. 
You should probably override the start() method instead.
def start(self):
     # do stuff
     FileDownload.start(self)

Sorry for the confusion!