Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Slave Configuration

Timestamp:

Oct 24, 2007, 5:04:39 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

David Abrahams <dave@…>

Comment:

Document custom variables

Slave Configuration

@@ -62 +62 @@
 }}}
 
-The properties are accessible in dotted notation, where the part before the dot is the package name, and the part after the dot is the name of the property.
+The properties are accessible in dotted notation, where the part before the dot is the package name, and the part after the dot is the name of the property.  Their values can be interpolated into [BuildRecipes build recipes] as well, so individual slaves can parameterize how their build is perfomed.  For example, given the following [BuildRecipe build recipe] excerpt:
+{{{
+<svn:checkout url="http://svn.example.org/repos/myproject/"
+    path="${repository.branch}" revision="${revision}"/>
+}}}
+Slaves may control which part of the repository is checked out and tested with a configuration file excerpt like this one:
+{{{
+[repository]
+branch=/branches/0.3-testing
+}}}
+
+See BuildRecipes for more information.