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

[Marcus Lindblom]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Marcus Lindblom <macke-DIcC8dYblPE at public.gmane.org> 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.

Thanks! I'll look into it.

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

Ok. Something is better than nothing though. :)

Cheers,
/Marcus