Triggering builds on buildbots just by committing to user directory not possible?

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-9-25 08:12 , Marko Käning wrote:
> Hi Lawrence,
> 
> On 25 Sep 2014, at 00:08 , Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
>> Not everyone uses "dports" for this.
> 
> neither did I always stick to that… :O
> 
> 
>> This would be, at best, an unreliable heuristic. I suppose it could check whether a file named "Portfile" had been modified.
> 
> Yep, agreed!
> 
> Well, the question is eventually what happens with the built binaries. They shouldn’t be distributed, of course, but only kept for the user/developer - for inspection perhaps. Well, more important are the logs and those are to be seen on the BBs...

For test builds I would think we want a completely separate MacPorts
installation that uninstalls everything between builds. It could upload
the archives to somewhere separate as well, and probably delete them
from there regularly.

- Josh