[Buildbot-devel] BuildBot & Visual Studios....

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org> wrote:
> Often, I feel like a small wrapper python script that would be shelled out
> would be *much simpler* to manage than the overhead of:
> - Add registry query implementation and unit tests
> - Add server-side logic to change VS exe path depending on the registry key
> and unit tests
> - Increased latency due to round-trips
> I know it's not buildbot standard behavior, but that's what we do for almost
> all our steps.

For what it's worth, I'm using a small wrapper script to invoke my
builds, too.  I'd much rather do that than rely on buildbot's
integration with any particular build system.  A separate script
is much easier to debug than something that can only
be tested inside the buildbot.
- Dan