Re: [BuildStream] 1.4 release timeline, targets and breaking changes

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 22:50 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom via BuildStream-
list wrote:
> * Remote Execution loose ends
>
>   At the gathering, Jürg, Jim and myself had a meeting discussing
>   some architectural points about how remote execution fits into
>   BuildStream in general, considering some existing use cases.
>
>   A few things which fell out of this:
>
>   - We need to separate the configuration of the remote execution
>     CAS from the BuildStream artifact cache CAS, as it is an existing
>     use case to push to multiple artifact caches, and it is not
>     guaranteed that a project's artifact cache is hosted by the same
>     CAS as the remote execution service used to build it (although
>     sharing the CAS is usually a good recommendation).

Related to this, I think we should also aim to fix #631 (user
configuration for remote execution) before 1.4. At least the
buildstream.conf part. CLI options could be deferred but not having any
user configuration for remote execution in 1.4 doesn't sound ideal. Or
is this just me?

Jürg