Re: [Launchpad-dev] Build service thoughts

2011-09-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Martin Pool wrote: >> Build numbers automatically increment for each build which saves the >> minor hassle of having to do so yourself in the changelog. > >That could be nice. Perhaps we can handle that - perhaps just as >simply as making bzr commit in the branch sug

Re: [Launchpad-dev] Build service thoughts

2011-09-15 Thread Julian Edwards
On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:34:04 Martin Pool wrote: > > One source package is built for many distros and distro versions. > > This would be nice to have in PPAs, again removing a minor hassle from > > packagers of having to build and upload source packages multiple > > times. > > Right, this

Re: Build service thoughts

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 September 2011 00:42, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > I packaged bzr for openSUSE recently and it was suggested I send some > notes on how their build service compares to Launchpad. Thanks for writing that up. jml and I (at least) have looked at it before but there's nothing like really using

Build service thoughts

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I packaged bzr for openSUSE recently and it was suggested I send some notes on how their build service compares to Launchpad. One difference that surprised me is packages are built instantly as soon as you commit. This can probably be seen as quite a waste of build daemon time since it will be t