Snapcraft Build in Subdirectory

[robert_joslyn at selinc.com]

> It is not there today, but the RFC about sources I sent to this list
> earlier today was also meant to solve this particular issue and avoid
> introducing another toplevel (to the part), source-[key] and have it
> live in its own yaml object.

Ah, I probably should have read that more carefully. Yes, I think that is 
probably a better way, since each source type could have many distinct 
options for the reasons you mention.

> For now I suggest (just for now) doing
>
>    mkdir parts/plugins
>    cp /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/plugins/autotools.py 
parts/plugins/x-autotools.py
>    [edit cwd in the build parts]
>    snapcraft away

This can get me started with structuring things for snapcraft. Right now 
I'm making the snaps that have this issue with shell scripts and not using 
snapcraft.

> source:
>    type: <type>
>    repo: <repo>
>    subdir: <dir>  #  also not settled on this name

This looks reasonable to me, but I'll let that discussion happen in reply 
to your RFC.

Thanks,

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Robert Joslyn
Software Engineer, R&D - Automation
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
509-332-1890 ext. 3214