[Scons-dev] Hummm... rant on

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 12:37 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
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I don't remember that episode, but I can imagine.

I guess we need 2 VMs per platform, one pure "out of the box", and one
"with all the tools supported in the distribution". All the other
combinations would amount to needing a near infinite number of VMs.


> I would be supportive of enabling test environment to pick up tools from

> the USER path, and not some hardcoded path anywhere in the tools or test

> framework.


In my response to Gary, I proposed a third path: an initialization
capability for testing only that allowed the base path to changed on a
per test site basis. I think that would cover all bases?

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