%title: Future of AOSC Building System(s)
%author: Zixing Liu
%date 2017-07-15

-> Contents <-

- The Problem of (Semi-)Automation Packaging
- The Early Generation of ACBS
- The Future Plans
- Integrate with ciel

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-> The Problem of (Semi-)Automation Packaging <-

- How ABBS tree is introduced?




- What's wrong with the original ABBS?


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-> The Problem of (Semi-)Automation Packaging <-

- How ABBS tree is introduced?

> Build scripts, sources, patches and configuration files are not recorded in the early days.
> Really need a way to organize these and the collabration.

- What's wrong with the original ABBS?

> Some features are missing: cannot automatically build packages that are depended by another package but not yet packaged
> There are some problems: bad detection of sub-directories, cannot select tree easily, hard to integrate with higher management layer

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-> The Early Generation of ACBS <-

- Written in Python?



- What are the problems with ACBS?



- The cure?


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-> The Early Generation of ACBS <-

- Written in Python?

> Python is easy to write, easy to change and run. Behave similar on difference platforms.
> Several community members master in Python, maintainance.

- What are the problems with ACBS?

> Bug prone, poor code quality due to its pliot project nature.
> Some features are not available or broken on platforms like PowerPC and MIPS.

- The cure?

> See the next page.

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-> The Future Plans <-

- Complete re-write







- Integrate with ciel



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-> The Future Plans <-

- Complete re-write

    - Why
        Aforementioned problems + Join the building process earlier when bootstrap / massive rebuild
    - Difficulties
        Time... Bash parsing... Testing (dogfooding)

- Integrate with ciel

> On the reverse side of this page?!!

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-> Integrate with ciel <-

- Protocol



- Different behaviors



- To be continued.....?



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-> Integrate with ciel <-

- Protocol

> Nanomsg, futher negotiations required

- Different behaviors

> Report errors using protocol, log xfer...

- To be continued, stay tuned for the upcoming talk by Lion