Hello! My team is looking to move to jenkins2 and struggling a bit with how to do a multip-platform build. I'm really excited about the direction it is moving in with the pipline builds -- I implemented something like this myself (github.com/tanium/pyjenkins), but glad to see something better being built directly into the platform.
One difficulty I've run into so far is the less-than-ideal for multi-platform builds with pipelines. We have a build that needs to run in windows, linux, mac, etc. Right now we have this setup with a matrix job. The only way I can see to do this with the pipeline plugin is using `parallel` (i.e. https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-plugin/blob/master/TUTORIAL.md#creating-multiple-threads) However, there is one rather large setback of doing it this way: *artifacts and output get intermingled.* It is pretty crucial to us to be able to quickly and clearly tell which platform the build failed on, as well as to distinguish the artifacts from platform from the artifacts from another platform. I have the build currently running with `parallel` steps, but I find it really really difficult to find out what the build is doing either while running or after it finishes. Also, there does not appear to be an option to setup an older-style matrix build that uses the Jenkinsfile for its execution (for understandable reasons), so I don't even see a way to move forward incrementally until multi-platform builds have better support. I should also say that the matrix job is a really awesome feature of jenkins that, from a survey of other build systems I did once, is kinda unique to jenkins. Support for having the exact same build definition across that executes across multiple platforms does not really exist outside the matrix job definition in Jenkins, as far as I could tell. It would be sad to see this great feature become a second-class citizen that can't use all the cool shiny new toys. Are there plans to add better support for multi-platform builds / matrix jobs? Is there something I'm missing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/ecf2b1f6-34bc-46fa-aa5c-ba3e3450a3d2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
