Re: GNOME Modulesets migrating to BuildStream

[Christian Hergert <christian hergert me>]

On 11/10/2017 12:46 AM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> I'm sorry that out of the many things I have to juggle, I had never
> considered Builder compatibility to be a blocker for the GNOME release
> team to start maintaining GNOME builds in a new format, this does
> strike me as an unreasonable requirement.

I think you've miss-interpreted my criticism about timing as suggesting 
a blocker (I'm not). What I was trying to communicate is that I would 
have benefited from a heads up (and maybe even a scheduled go/no-go date).

Doing so would have provided me a chance at keeping things working.

>   o Keep the JHBuild modulesets on "life support" purely for the sake of
>     Builder needs until such a time that Builder grows the features
>     it needs to interact with BuildStream.

That seems reasonable.

>    Maybe you will be interested in being able to automatically
>    launch a VM after a build of a given module.

Indeed that has been the plan for years, but Continuous doesn't seem to 
give us working images.

-- Christian