[buckminster-dev] question about generators and/or 'just in time' buildi

[Todd_Lee@xxxxxxxx]

I've got a couple of non-java (python) projects that I'm trying to
'buckminsterize' - The relation is something like this:

Component A depends on artifact X contained in Component B

So I've set up the dependencies so that when I call my top level cquery
(dependent on Component A) I get a workspace with both Component A and
Component B materialized (I'm working in the IDE right now). I've created
buckminster.cspec's for both components as well as build.xml wrappers for
the actual python build operations.

I'm wondering if there's a way (I'm sure there must be, so I guess the
question is really 'what's the recommended way') to build Component B so
that artifact X is ready and waiting when Component A looks for it to
fulfill the build-time dependency? Looking at the documentation, it would
seem that perhaps this is the role of the 'generator' element in the cspec,
but I'm not clear on how it should be implemented. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Todd


Todd Lee
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