Hi all, I want to start the discussion of removing engine registration. How many people actually take advantage of being able to run pio commands everywhere outside of an engine template directory? This will be a nontrivial change on the operational side so I want to gauge the potential impact to existing users.
Pros: - Stateless build. This would work well with many PaaS. - Eliminate the "pio build" command once and for all. - Ability to use your own build system, i.e. Maven, Ant, Gradle, etc. - Potentially better experience with IDE since engine templates no longer depends on an SBT plugin. Cons: - Inability to run pio engine training and deployment commands outside of engine template directory. - No automatic version matching of PIO binary distribution and artifacts version used in the engine template. - A less unified user experience: from pio-build-train-deploy to build, then pio-train-deploy. Regards, Donald
