[yocto] Is there a fetcher for (dare I say it?) TFS (arrrrgh, I said it...) out there somewhere, or do I have to roll my own?

[Spriggs, Jim]

Hi Paul, List

rodger that, thanks!

Looks like it's time to embiggen my python nature...

A quick skim through the sources suggests (to me, at least) that the p4 command-set looks similar enough to TEE's to make it a reasonable starting point for a TFS fetcher.

Would anyone with wider experience of the various (supported) SCCS care to correct my naïve impression?

Greets,
--
jim

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2015 12:56
An: Spriggs, Jim <J.Spriggs at raylase.de>
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Betreff: Re: [yocto] Is there a fetcher for (dare I say it?) TFS (arrrrgh, I said it...) out there somewhere, or do I have to roll my own?

On Wednesday 15 July 2015 10:23:09 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> On Wednesday 15 July 2015 09:06:19 Spriggs, Jim wrote:
> > [ before anyone tells me to wash my mouth with soap: I actually have
> > to live with this junk on a daily basis, so cut me some slack
> > already :-\ ]
> Been there! (Not with TFS, but VSS in a previous job...)
>
> > I'm running the dizzy version of bb  on my build-server, and
> > currently actively *push* stuff to it from the TFS-server.
> >
> > Obviously, I'd much rather have the build-server *pull* from the
> > TFS-server, probably using the TEE CLC.
> >
> > I realize that there's never likely to be any "official" support for
> > TFS, and I'll probably have to roll my own fetcher.
>
> FWIW, and I hope Richard doesn't hit me, I think we would accept a
> fetcher implementation into BitBake rather than having to have it
> floating around somewhere externally - you can see we've done that for
> other proprietary version control systems. The challenge with these
> fetchers though is that nobody who regularly maintains BitBake is able
> to test them, so we are almost completely reliant on folks in the
> community such as yourself to do that testing for us after it gets
> merged (and not send us patches that break it, because we probably won't be able to verify that they don't).
>
> > The current Bitbake User Manual seems only to describe the standard
> > fetchers, so if anyone could point me at a clue or two about how to
> > write and integrate a custom fetcher, I'd be very grateful indeed.
>
> I don't think we have anything in the way of documentation on writing
> your own fetcher - the only documentation is the code. That said,
> using the existing fetchers as examples it should be fairly
> straightforward I would hope.

Hmm, the bit I neglected to state explicitly - I'm not aware of anyone having previously implemented a TFS fetcher, but hopefully if such a person exists they will speak up here ;)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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