[Buildbot-devel] A changesource for a regular dir?

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu> wrote:
> We have a 'content directory' with many large files that we do not track
> in our VCS. This changes when people upload to it. I'd like to trigger a
> build from this.
>
> Has anyone written anything usable for this?
>
> The buildmaster (and the content dir) is located on RedHat Linux, btw.
>
> I suppose I could use parts of Mercurial's inotify for this, but maybe
> there are better or more complete solutions out there? :)

I've been using something like this to test in one-oh.  I think a
"DirectoryChangeSource" and "CopyDirectory" step would both be good
ideas.

I doubt my work on one-oh will be very useful toward creating such a
thing for 0.7.x, sadly.

Dustin

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