Using build_runner to generate files

[JesseRiemens]

I'm not sure if this has ever been pondered about, but in my build system I would like to generate the remote objects at build time, and not commit them to the repository. As I am already using build_runner, it would be nice to also generate (remote) objects with build_runner. Was this ever attempted, and what challenges are there?

I was thinking about using a directory (for example remote_interface_definitions) containing symlinks to the locations of the interface definitions to be generated, and checking these into git. Is there maybe a better approach?

Any suggestions for a robust implementation are appreciated!

[robert-ancell]

It hasn't been investigated but yes, I think it would be useful to have the DBus interfaces generated at build time.