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Support a well-known script (path) for building dependencies.

Johan Ouwerkerk requested to merge ouwerkerk/ci-tooling:better-dependency-scripting-than-json-blobs into master

With this change KDE projects may inject logic for building dependencies which are not covered by normal KDE tooling as a custom shell script.

This shell script is an alternative to encoding the same information in the 'current-jobs.json' blob for binary-factory, with a few advantages:

  • It is not JSON but a free formatted shell script
  • It can be maintained directly by the app project
  • It can be tested by the app developers locally
  • It is automatically picked up by build-generic now. I.e. it actually works during local development.

In turn this means builds should "just work" when build-generic is invoked, even for projects with unconventional dependencies. This should make the life of app developers significantly easier.

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