[Buildbot-devel] Pure local builders

[Gavin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Hards [mailto:bradh at frogmouth.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 6:34 PM
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Al Nikolov
> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Pure local builders
> 
> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:46:12 pm Al Nikolov wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > It seems pure local builders which run steps on buildbaster only are out
> of
> > the BuildBot concept? In fact i can see a lot of sence in steps which
> run
> > on buildmaster and can imagine builders which doesn't need any
> buildslave
> > at all.
> http://djmitche.github.com/buildbot/docs/0.7.10/#Steps-That-Run-on-the-
> Master
> 
> I also second Marcus' comment about a local builder for some purposes. You
> might consider it overkill, but a local build is quite cheap.

heh, I thought it was normal - at least I don't see a problem. As the
buildmaster already has buildbot installed, then to create a local
buildslave need only use the create buildslave step and your done.

I also think it good to use resources that a buildmaster on its own would
not make use of. But maybe I've misunderstood something.

Gav...

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> Brad
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