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Re: [orion-dev] Ability to launch commands on server?
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Hi John,
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:31 PM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anna Dushistova wrote on 12/08/2011 11:08:26 PM:
>
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>> Is there any API to launch a command(for instance, make) in Orion?
>> I don't seem to be able to find one...
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> If you mean launch a command on the server, there isn't any. It's designed
> as a multi-user server so there is no way for a user to directly invoke
> shell commands. You would need a new plugin on the server, or possibly run a
> separate build server that exposes the commands you need. Are you looking at
> using Orion for tooling a compiled language? This is something we are
> interested in exploring in the long term, although our current focus is on
> interpreted languages without a complex build step.
Yes, I think that Orion can be very useful to interface with powerful
remote build machines.
If you are building, say, a Linux distro from source, it's painful to
do locally.
Anna.
