2015-02-26 17:09 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell <[email protected]>:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Jesse Glick <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 10:43:28 AM UTC-5, LesMikesell wrote:
> >>
> >> With workflow, if you trigger another build, how do you access that
> >> other build object?  For example to find the build number so you can
> >> copy its artifacts into the workflow job.    Or find the SVN_REVISION
> >> so you can trigger other builds of that same revision?
> >
> >
> > This area is still relatively weak in Workflow, so I plan to add more
> > features here.
> >
> > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-26100
> > https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-25851
> >
>
> Is there some reason workflow isn't just a superset of build flow,
>

The explanation you ask for has already been given here and there on the ML.

IIRC, Build flow plugin has been deemed a dead-end by its creator (Nicolas
De Loof, IIRC). That always happens in our field.
But that experience has somehow also served as another feedback to create a
far broader-scoped plugin.


> adding control of workspaces and inlining?   What's the point of
> having open source if everyone starts over from scratch whenever they
> have a new idea anyway?   Or, why aren't both of these just class
> libraries for the groovy plugin with an easy way to add new ones for
> common high-level operations?
>

Many reasons already given I guess (suspendable, etc.)

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