Re: What Problem does BuildStream Resolve ?

[Sander Striker <s striker striker nl>]

Hi Edmund,

Could you please configure your mail client so that you don't show up as "BuildStream" in the From header?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Sander

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 08:12 BuildStream <edmund sutcliffe+buildstream codethink com> wrote:

I've been re-reading the documentation and thinking about how to explain
what problem the Buildstream tooling resolves.
    * it recursively maintains the dependencies between repositories of
source code
    * it is a system that is constructed to build software using build
software
      [one could say that it is a Meta-Build system]
    * it provides isolation between builds and attempts to ensure builds
are reproducible
    * it is capable of creation of filesystems which are capable of being
consumed for
      instantiation of software.

However,
     * Is it a schedule for the execution of the builds ?
     * It doesn't appear to be possible for it to account for who caused
the build
       to be initialised and the consumption of resources used in the
build


For someone coming to buildstream for the first time, the questions
which arise is why should I change my tooling ? What problems does it
solve better than anything else currently available.. ?

The questions which sort of arise are for example, are why can't I used
http://packer.io to provided reproducible isolated construction of
filesystems ? Why is isolation of builds important ? Why yet another
dependency management systems.. Shouldn't we just use what the Version
Control Systems offer us.

Thanks in advance
Edmund
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