[maemo-developers] Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:25, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:17, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Build-Depends is OK. scp is hackish.
>>>
>>> Why is scp hackish? I use it in preference to dput all the time. What
>>> value does dput give for the extras autobuilder?
>>
>> dput is a standard tool for uploading packages to builders in Debian.
>> scp is a tool for copying files over ssh connection.
>> Don't you feel the difference?
>
> If tool A uses tool B under the covers, and is effectively no more
> than a wrapper around it, with its own config files to obfuscate
> things which add no value at all *for a particular use case*; then no,
> I don't see a difference.
>
> Maemo isn't Debian, despite being built on it, and the auto-builder
> use cases are different to those in Debian; why cling to a tool which
> is designed for one use when using scp (which is all dput is using
> here) could solve some real world problems?
>
Don't get me wrong, please. I'm not big fan of dput or Debian. I'm
using scp for my uploads, because my distro doesn't have dput at all.
However if there is any chance to implement this feature using
standard tools I'd prefer this one. Considering the fact that for some
Maemo developers even using dput was difficult and they're asking for
more user-friendly tool I tend to think twice before start using scp
to upload packages. Even providing our own tool(which can use scp
under the hood) is better than using it directly.

-- 
BR,
Ed