We have an automated build system that does the following that we documented here
Now, for a mono-repo, it’s very important to not build the world and only build what needs to be tested from the changes. (This is done at twitter so they can confirm they are not breaking master for any other teams). sooooooo, I am wondering how to tie this into
- Composite builds
- Git changed files
in a way that if I change files in library A, then library A build is run, AND then project C and D are run with the changed library. I do not need library B nor project E and F compiled or run here since they do not depend on library A.
How is this done with composite builds?
referencing @st_oehme in case you know this one too?
It may be nice if we can run the git command ourselves AND pass gradle the changed files such that gradle will determine what needs to be build. This is what pants build system does(except it queries git) so that it can build only part of the monorepo each auto build that goes off.
Ok, so I found this https://github.com/zladovan/monorepo WHICH honestly, I ‘think’ gradle should be doing and in fact, he talks about doing a gradle plugin BUT I think it needs to be a full feature. Where to do a feature request.
I think twitter screwed up their mono-repo in one way that gradle SHOULD fix if they wanted. For every project B that ‘includes’ a library A, force the developer(or break the build) to have library A declare that project B depends on it. This is MAJOR in the fact the the team owning library A must approve. If you don’t do this, what happened at twitter is things got out of control and everyone would start depending on a library without even telling the team that owned that library. This solves TWO things
- notification of the team owning library A they have a new customer and they give it a ship it
- when the CI system calls build, AND files were changes in library A, it can build library A, then walk up the chain and build project B.
thanks,
Dean