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perftool-incubator / bench-trafficgen

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Consider adding support for an installation process that provides a `VERSION` file #29

Closed portante closed 3 years ago

portante commented 3 years ago

It would be great for the pbench-trafficgen functionality to not have to "know" how to install bench-trafficgen. We have a Draft PR, https://github.com/distributed-system-analysis/pbench/pull/2375, which illustrates how we could take advantage of that.

This gives the bench-trafficgen the freedom to do whatever it wants with how to provide the code, where no knowledge of git or build processes need to be kept with pbench-trafficgen or any other consumer. The "interface" is the agreed upon installation directory (currently /opt/bench-trafficgen), a VERSION file, and the known locations of the built executables within the installation directory.

k-rister commented 3 years ago

Our current system works fine for our needs and we have no need to change it.