[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

Ben Hearsum bhearsum at mozilla.com
Fri Aug 8 10:41:59 UTC 2008


> - The ability to copy log files on a file server outside Buildbot.
>

IMHO this is something Buildbot shouldn't handle. Perhaps integrating  
with OS-level logging (eg, syslogd), but I don't think it should be re- 
inventing the wheel.
>
> - Add intrinsic file operation commands that the slave will do rather
> than using ShellCommmand for things like "cp", "rm", "tar", etc.  For
> some people, this could remove the need for tools like Cygwin when
> building cross-platform.
>

For us, this isn't a problem because we already depend on MSYS for  
building - but I like this idea.




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