Re: Do we need wxpython.org/Phoenix/tools ?

On 2015-02-26 19:49 Robin Dunn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Because different versions of these tools can sometimes have very 
> different behaviors, so using the same version everywhere can be very 
> important.

I see. But good tools should have backwards-compatibility or they
should have flags to act like older versions.

> 2. By having build.py fetch the tools I don't need to manually update 
> all of my development machines and buildbot environments

That is a very important argument. I see.

> 3. If somebody doesn't like it or if there isn't a compatible version 
> available via the tools folder then the user can override that with
> an environment variable.

I would suggest a patch with a global option flag that switch off
completely switch of the getTool() behavior fetching from wxPython.org.
With that flag activated only the local system tools are used. And if
they are no present an human readable error message will appear.

Would you accept a patch like that?

e.g. "--localtools"

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