On 14 December 2016 at 04:57, Kyle Fazzari <kyle.fazz...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone. > > I feel it coming on... this is going to be a tome. tl;dr... snapcraft > could be smarter than it is. But would that lead to its doing more for > you than you want? We'd like to find out. > > > *Option 1*: Error out and make you be specific. This is the current > behavior. > > *Option 2*: Automatically take care of everything. If you modify a part > with dependencies, snapcraft will rebuild those dependencies as it sees > fit without your needing to say so. Similarly, if you clean a part with > dependencies, snapcraft will clean those dependencies as it sees fit > without your needing to say so. > I would prefer a reliable Option 2. If it can't be reliable, then Option 1. *Option 3*: Prompt. "You've modified part A, but part B depends upon it. > Would you like to rebuild it as well? (Y/n)" and the like. > No thanks. There seems little purpose to answering 'no', apart from blowing off your foot. And useless if you are driving this from a Makefile or similar (think generating your snapcraft.yaml). > *Option 4*: Add the ability to configure this behavior between options > 1-3. Perhaps the sensible default would be option 3. > > > Our goal here is to do the least surprising thing, which is why we're > asking for input from our users. Please let your voice be heard! I found it annoying that I would need to run three or more commands to build my snap when iterating, and would certainly like it if cleaning and rebuilding happened automatically if I have touched relevant source code. People might need to separate out their parts into different directories to make this reliable. A problematic case I would have tripped over is a slow building autotools project, in which I've added a snapcraft.yaml and some Python wrappers. I would not want to trigger a rebuild of the autotools part because I'm fixing a bug in my wrappers (a second part, but stored in the same tree). Maybe you could handle this by monitoring the files opened by the build process somehow? -- Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com>
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