[Buildbot-devel] custom buildstem

[Axel Hecht]

I'd like to chime in on this thread with my minority opinion.

I use a custom slave step, and it works like charm for the most part, having
to edit the buildslave's buildbot.tac being the worst culprit.

A good reason to do so, IMHO, is when you want to gather machine readable
data from a build task, which usually implies that it's hardly human
readable. I shovel that into a separate channel in the regular build log as
json, fwiw. The standard log displays don't show it, and I can easily
extract it for custom displays and reports.

I also think that requiring software on the slave is perfectly fine, there's
already a ton of compilers, sdks, ndks, whatnot that a build may need, why
not a piece of python code? I don't like the idea of using buildbot to do
software deployment, there are other tools for that.

Keep in mind though that that's probably just me that's doing things this
way.

Axel


2011/3/28 <mp3 at hello.lv>

> Hi.
> How to add a custom buildstep containing python source code?
> I don't want to use an external python script + ShellCommand. I want all
> the sources to be within buildbot.
>
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