[oi-dev] Distribution build system

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 03/16/11 09:12 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:
> FWIW at work we have an XML file describing each release as (essentially) a number of git repos + tags to checkout, and then what script to run to build each given repo. Our overall build script goes through that XML in order, and is able to do "the right thing". This gives us pretty reproducible releases.

Sounds very much like jhbuild, which is often used to build projects
like GNOME & X.Org with dozens or hundreds of individual modules to
checkout and build.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/jhbuild

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