No Builds

[Sean McArthur]

http://www.futurealoof.com/posts/no-builds.html

tl;dr - Instead of build scripts, postinstall, postupdate, etc, everything
that is needed is generated the first time it's requested, and then cached.

Interesting idea. As I slay dragons in BigTentia, I imagine this approach
would reduce the amount of room for dragons.

Is it worth it?

[Ben Adida]

It's interesting! I think one area where it might not work super well is
the generation of secrets/keypairs, but who says things have to be black
and white, you could say "no builds except these super well defined
exceptions."

-Ben

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[Gene Wood]

Looks very cool to me. I'm open to moving from a build/package deployment
model to a git checkout tag model.

Ben, in addition to the secrets and keys that are put on the machine
through config management (e.g. root.cert, the cookie secret, etc.) are
there other secrets/keys that are generated at build time?
-Gene

[Lloyd Hilaiel]

tl;dr; Yes for newer projects! But I'm not convinced it's worth dropping everything and re-working persona.

I love this approach. When combined with all the work we've done with cache compatibility, I think it's highly complementary to our current toolchain, and comes with zero performance impact once we've got forward proxies and eventually CDN.

The thing I like the most about it is that it makes it easier to build tests that exercise code that is currently only run upon deployment. (for instance, wouldn't it be great to exercise all of the magnification logic and run frontend tests on the minified version?)

This: "Tests can run without any rebuilding and they use the same code as the production app"

and finally deployment is faster and can always run with all locales enabled.

+1

lloyd

[Ben Adida]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Lloyd Hilaiel <ll...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> tl;dr; Yes for newer projects! But I'm not convinced it's worth dropping
> everything and re-working persona.
>

Ah, that is the voice of reason right there. If it ain't broke...

-Ben