Generalising bzr-builder

[John Arbash Meinel]

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> I started reading the bzr-builder code today. It looks pretty neat.
>
> I've got some code changes and help changes I'll be submitting soon.
> I'll also be adding builder to the Plugins Guide. The best place to put
> it will depend on whether we generalise it or not so I thought I'd raise
> the idea for consideration.
>
> In particular, the "build" command nicely solves a common problem:
> building a "tree image" from multiple pieces. As well as building a tree
> ready for deb packaging, it looks useful for building QA images for
> testing and images for packaging distro packages, Windows installers and
> OS X bundles. I wonder if we should generalise it accordingly? At first
> glance, it wouldn't take much to do this, e.g. moving the deb-version
> clause out of the top line into an optional command, say. Alternatively,
> we could put "build" and "dailydeb" into different plugins?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ian C.
>

This seems like it could be nice. Especially if it could streamline some
of the build process for Windows and OS X. I don't know if the overhead
is really what we would expect, though. I'm not sure that the 'build a
tree for deb packaging' really matches, though.

John
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