[Nix-dev] Re: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/scons

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Thu Dec 23 09:07:36 +0100 2010:
> > If I compare this to:
> > - introduce NIX_SCONS_PATH (- because complexity increases much more)
> > - users have to look it up
> Buildenv can set NIX_SCONS_PATH to NIX_PROFILES/bin:NIX_PROFILES/sbin.
About derivations you're right. You also have to think about installing
scons into your user profile.

Then you have to look it up. Then you try to write your first scons
build script and the result will be "gcc not found".

You should try to find a use case where my patch does any real harm to
anybody. The reason why it was written is clear.

If I read the thread only "a compromise" such as the new env var always looks
fine. But its not the most simple solution. Thus its bad. (IMHO).

If we started agreeing on "compromises" for wrong reasons it would be
bad.

Marc Weber