Re: what's going on with lapwing?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The only reason it's not there is that nobody's ever asked for it ;-)

> You can specify an actual list right now instead of a keyword for 
> branches_to_build. e.g. "branches_to_build => [qw(REL_13_STABLE 
> REL_14_STABLE REL_15_STABLE)]". The only difficulty about this is you 
> need to prune the list when a branch goes EOL.

Right; it's that need for manual maintenance that I'd like to
get out from under.

> But we could also build in some keyword type settings too, that would 
> interact more sensibly with the server list of branches.
> So we could say something like  "branches_to_build => 
> 'UP_TO_REL_15_STABLE'". That would be pretty simple to code for.

WFM.

			regards, tom lane