On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 18:22 +0000, Managan, Rob wrote:
[…]
> Is there a good reason why tests tend to use test.where_is('my program')
> instead of test.detect('my program') ???
>
> I ask since where_is uses the os.environ path and detect uses the path set up
> by the default environment. For me, the latter is to be preferred since our
> default image for Macs includes some really old stuff that gets put on the
> path. This means that about 20-40 of the scons test fail since they think a
> tool is defined but the default environment can not run them since it is not
> on the environments path.
[…]Setting up a good paradigm for tools would be a good idea here. Having looked at a few tools, from what I can tell, no two tools use the same approach to anything, and there are lots of arcane bits in some of them. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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