[Buildbot-devel] adding build steps on the fly

[Sergey A. Lipnevich]

Brian Gerkey wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Is it possible to add a build step on the fly, during a build?
> 
> In particular, when a build is triggered, I want to process the list  
> of changed files and potentially add new steps as a result of  
> processing.

The easier way may be to always add all the steps but subclass them so
that they only execute if certain build property(ies) have certain
values. I posted some code for that in this thread:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.buildbot.devel/3384.

Sergey.