[Buildbot-devel] Determining steps based on what's checked out...

[A.T.Hofkamp]

On 03/16/2012 12:27 AM, Jarod McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> So We have a need to create a new feature into BuildBot. We would like to be able to configure
> some build steps based on information that is complied after checking out a project from git. We

The conceptual problem with this approach is that part of the build procedure gets moved to 
buildbot, and you become unable to build your product without buildbot.

What's worse, the information of how to exactly build it also gets scattered between buildbot 
configuration, project build files, and arbitrary shell scripts (if you have them).
In time, you may become even unable to understand how the build procedure exactly works and/or 
how/where to change it for your new needs.

In the past, these considerations were always a reason not to mix build procedure logic with 
automagic buildbot building.

Albert