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

[email protected] wrote:
> 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"
>

Perhaps.  Submit the PR and I'll take a look.


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Robin Dunn
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