[Buildbot-devel] Status of Multi-Project Support

[Mark Melvin]

Thanks for the replies, everyone.  It sounds like full-fledged
multi-project support is one of the things that would be on my list
for a 1.0 release. ;o)

Mark.

On 8/6/08, Steve James <ste at cpan.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Mark Melvin wrote:
>  > Hi There,
>  >
>  > I'm looking at writing a build system for our internal product builds
>  > and in addition to being a huge Python fan, I have been looking pretty
>  > hard at Buildbot and it is almost everything I would sit down and
>  > think about writing myself.  However - there seems to be a recurring
>  > issue with people wanting to build more than one "project",
>  > additionally complicated by the fact that these projects may be
>  > interdependent (i.e. the output of one project is involved in the
>  > build of another).
>  >
>  > I was wondering what the status of this was?  Does buildbot now
>  > support this workflow in some undocumented way, have people hacked it
>  > to suit their needs, or do people just not use it this way at all?
>
>
> What a good question. I'd also like know what the established lore is on this
>  too. Wouldn't this be an ideal wiki topic? Is it an FAQ even?
>
>  FWIW, I recently tried out a Buildbot configuration for our established builds
>  here, currently based on Test::AutoBuild. The first obstacle is the
>  assumption that there is only one source repository. Fortunately there's a
>  patch for multiple Subversion repository support so I continued. The next
>  obstacle was defining dependencies such that if A or B is changed A or B
>  re-builds but _also_ that B rebuilds is A rebuilds, and so on. Amazingly (to
>  me at least) I hacked up a new kind of scheduler that does just what I want.
>  The experiment continues, but so far it looks like I can get all the benefits
>  of Buildbot _and_ continue to build interdependant projects with it. Yay!
>
>  Steve.
>
>
>
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