Why KBUS?

So why are we developing KBUS, rather than using some other messaging system?

(I'm going to assume you've seen the previous blog items on KBUS, and/or read the KBUS documentation on its Google code page.)

Saving and restoring the state of a muddle build

So over the last week or so I've been working on adding commands to muddle so that we can store and restore "version" information for a build tree.

The basic idea is to be able to save enough information to a file to allow reconstructing the main build structure, and the content of every checkout.

A build description doesn't necessarily suffice for this, firstly because you don't actually have to specify a revision id for a particular checkout (one can default to HEAD), and secondly because the user of a build might have updated checkouts since the build description was first used to extract it.

So, here is some documentation for the result (so far, at least).