> stifle your free speech, This sounds so bizarre and condescending ... it was definitely not my intention. I have to change my current evening reading ... It's depressing anyways ...
Sylvain On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Sylvain Joyeux <bir.sylv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As rock developer I have to understand the installation process, e.g., to be >> able to repair installations and thus I sometimes also take advantage of >> this knowledge. > > If you wonder about the installation process details, ask. After > enough questions you should have an idea of how the installation > process is *meant* to work which is a more actionable information. > > The three lines that you find so transparent are full of red flags: > > 1. manually set GEM_HOME (without setting GEM_PATH I might add) > 2. access a hidden folder > 3. run an unrelated command to hopefully initialize the autoproj > environment (envsh) > > (1) and (2) place a lot of assumptions on autoproj's internals. How do > you know whether these assumptions actually match autoproj's, or if > you're doing something that works by accident ? > > (3) is in effect exploiting a bug in autoproj. > > So, my apologies if it felt like I was trying to stifle your free > speech, but even if it feels better to you to go close to the metal, > this is *not* good practice. > > Sylvain _______________________________________________ Rock-dev mailing list Rock-dev@dfki.de http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/rock-dev
