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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Edwards wrote:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>>>> Erm - my mistake. We won't yet have generalised builders that can accept
>>>> jobs for different archs, but any builder should be able to do branch
>>>> jobs (ie. non soyuz-build jobs).
>>> I hope that's the case.  I guess it means the other job types need to be
>>>  script-based, which I think they are at least for the recipe stuff.
>> Well, the recipe stuff doesn't exist yet :-)  But I think it's a very
>> sensible idea to run possibly-unruly code in a subprocess and so I'm
>> sure we'll have a script as an entry point.
> 
> Well my point is that the builders are arch-specific, so unless the job
> is exclusively a script then it limits which builders it can run on.

Oh, you mean "script" as in "something that doesn't have compiled bits"?

Cheers,
mwh