make "buildbot start" directory optional

[ipv6guru]

How about making the directory be an optional parameter when doing "buildbot start"?

As an example, it would be great if each of these did the same identical thing:

% buildbot start % buildbot start . % buildbot start /home/foo/buildbotconfig (when run from the /home/foo/buildbotconfig directory)

Submitted: John O'Duinn ( joduinn ) - 2006-07-06 15:22

Extra Comments :-

ate: 2007-01-31 09:50 Sender: warner

yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. 'stop' and 'restart' should do the same thing, of course.

[ipv6guru]

Moved from sourceforge

[dustin]

The buildmaster needs a directory to store stuff in, and I don't want to just strip the filename from the config file and use that -- doing so violates the principle of least surprise..

[marcusl]

But if there's a master.cfg or rathrt buildbot.tac in the current dir, isn't it obvious it's a buildmaster directory?

[dustin]

Oh, I misread the OP as saying that 'buildbot start' woud accept a path to a config file.

So yeah, this sounds fine.

[dustin]

commit af5c745b6a8a8332a4d73caaef5ba9c43491d60a
Author: Daniel Dunbar <daniel@zuster.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 27 14:04:05 2009 -0800

    Trac #527: make "buildbot start" directory optional.

Thanks Daniel!