> I am wondering if it was possible to replace the Jenkins pipeline with only > Qbs. In theory I see no reason why this should not work given the flexibility > of the Qbs but is there any specific functionality out of the box that could > make the typicial tasks performed by Jenkins easier? Specifically: > > * Download sources from Bitbucket (Git) > * Running the build using MSBuild .proj file > * Publishing the build artifacts to external server > > All of it can obviously be performed by using Javascript/Commands/Custom > rules in Qbs but maybe some of it is already there so I would not need to > reinvent the wheel. Also there is a question of bootstrapping such a build > system since Jenkins server does have web-based front-end. But I guess it can > even be used through it with Jenkins simply running the Qbs. Or perhaps it is > a silly idea since Qbs was not meant to be used this way?
I am interested in this topic as well. * What do you mean by "question of bootstrapping such a build system since Jenkins server does have web-based front-end"? * Do you want to replace Jenkins completely with Qbs? * In bigger projects you will most likely have dependencies on other projects. You don't want to reinvent package management, do you. Conan + Artifactory is used a lot for that purpose. Conan and Qbs are good friends. [1] In general, I think that a declarative DSL somehow similar to the Qbs' QML dialect would be very nice for describing continuous delivery pipelines. Especially the Depends and Export item pair would provide a side-effect free way to forward data from one job to another and would allow proper parallelization of jobs. There could be more QML items, for instance, to span a parameter matrix on multiple jobs. Many CI services use yaml these days, but my personal impression is that yaml is much harder to read, to write and to rehearse than QML. Richard [1] https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/generators/qbs.html#qbs-generator _______________________________________________ Qbs mailing list Qbs@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qbs
