#43 Installers

[Jonathan Clark]

Define "Code Grabbers" that grab and compile code automatically from SVN, Git, or the web. This system should also keep track of software versions in a very strict way so that experiments are more likely to be reproducible.

[Jonathan Clark]

Example:

# providers/joshua-jon.py
class JoshuaJonProvider(Provider):
getFetchCommands(repo, version):
... # Default svn provider?

getBuildCommands(version):
...

getVersion(version):
... #head->r529 # to determine what version was actually used

getPatch():
... # determine what changed?