Julian Edwards wrote: > Michael Nelson wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Michael Nelson >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Michael Hudson >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> >> Julian Edwards wrote: >> > There is one nightmare part to this - the implementation of >> > IBuilder.findBuildCandidate(). This is currently a very ugly >> query that >> > decides which job to dispatch next, based on a few criteria >> about the jobs. I >> > expect it to get to troll-like ugliness by the time we finish >> and I'm not sure >> > how it will work yet, it depends on how Michael re-factors >> IBuilder and sets >> > up an interface that other builders must implement. >> >> Wow, that's a beauty alright. >> >> >> Hmm... as far as I understand it, we aren't going to have >> generalised builders that can do both binary-package building and >> branch->source package building initially right? Rather, we'll have >> different types of builders. So although we'll want to keep the >> scoring consistent for both so that when we *do* have such >> infrastructure they'll be queued fairly, currently each builder type >> will be able to implement its own findBuildCandidate() and only be >> looking for builds of the required type... in which case, the >> short-term solution for findBuildCandidate() should be pretty >> straight forward? >> >> >> Erm - my mistake. We won't yet have generalised builders that can accept >> jobs for different archs, but any builder should be able to do branch >> jobs (ie. non soyuz-build jobs). > > > I hope that's the case. I guess it means the other job types need to be > script-based, which I think they are at least for the recipe stuff.
Well, the recipe stuff doesn't exist yet :-) But I think it's a very sensible idea to run possibly-unruly code in a subprocess and so I'm sure we'll have a script as an entry point. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
