Re: [bitbake-devel] proposal: build pipelines in bitbake-setup

On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 14:37, Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:

> To be honest I think I disagree with you here.  There’s already a load of “build pipeline” tools from sh scripts to Makefiles to the multitude of  task runners written in every language under the run (invoke, rake, etc).
>
> Does the world need another one?

The idea is that bitbake-setup should help users do something useful
with a build they set up, by providing a standard UI. You'd type
$ bitbake-setup run
and it will give you a selection of what's possible, and then proceed
to do it. It's the equivalent of 'kas build', just more flexible :)

If someone has written their pipeline with make or a shell script,
then bitbake-setup can simply run that (e.g. a pipeline containing a
single step), but I think there's also value in having 'native'
support for multi-step pipelines. They're simple (e.g. executable
commands are static strings that can't be parametrized), and if that's
not flexible enough, there's indeed plenty of industrial-grade tools.

Alex