Re: [Ivyplugins-user] Feasability of ivy based build promoting

[Ulrik S. <ulr...@ja...>]

It sounds interesting. This plugin is still very basic, and anything  
that makes it more clever is welcome.

One related thing that we've thought about is to access the current  
build queue and make sure each project is only there once.

--
Ulrik



> I'm curious if someone can speak to the feasibility of a plugin  
> idea I have.
>
> To illustrate imagine there is a dependency hierarchy as such set  
> up in ivy
>
> C depends on B depends on A
>
> Currently if A is checked in repeatedly B and C will be built  
> almost as
> many times.
>
> For instance:  A checkin; A build; A checkin; B build; C build; A  
> build;
> B build; C build.
>
>
> it seems that a plugin could be designed so that when the second "A
> checkin" occurs, the second "A build" is promoted to happen  
> immediately,
> so that the timeline would then be
>
>
> A checkin; A build; A checkin; A build; B build; C build;
>
> The logic being that if a check in occurs to a project with no
> dependencies, that is depended on, then it should build before those
> that depend on it.
>
> Any insights would be appreciated, I am not very familiar with CC's  
> loop
> and what is doable in general.
>
> -shane
>
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