[Buildbot-devel] Setup of client's environment from client

[Tom Prince]

> BuildProperties seems promising but I haven't thought of a clean way
> to use them. I could imagine running the "setup-env" script, having it
> spit out the proper environment settings to use and then using
> "SetProperty" with a custom function to set Properties which THEN get
> translated into environment settings on the client. Hmmph.

There was recently support added on master to better handle the second
part of this. You can now have properties that are dicts, and have them
be properly substituted.

If you implemented a custom function to set a property to a dict from a
list of environment variables, I think that would be something
reasonable to include upstream.

  Tom