[Buildbot-devel] Sharing code between master and slave implementations in Buildbot

[Vladimir Rutsky]

On 17.11.2013 18:05, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> There's not - I thought a bit about it when I created that
> duplication, and didn't see an easy way.  I promised myself that if we
> found additional duplicated code, then it would be time to figure it
> out.
>
> I think it could be done with symlinks (which Git will maintain), but
> that will cause problems for Windows users, I think.  It will also
> make it a little more difficult to build packages, but some hacking in
> setup.py could fix that.
>
> A `buildbot-common` package could work, too.
>
> Dustin

Ok, I see.  There is no good reason to create `buildbot-common` package 
right now, but in future, if more code duplication will arise, I think 
creating of `buildbot-common` is most preferrable.

Symlinks on windows are broken, at least on Windows 7 and below: you 
need NTFS filesystem and either software for creating symlinks, either 
administrative rights.

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Vladimir Rutsky