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

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Marc Weber wrote:

> 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".
No since NIX_SCONS_PATH is set to NIX_PROFILES/bin:NIX_PROFILES/sbin.
> 
> 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.
I have nothing against your patch (btw, I don't use scons). Just some (not 
all!) of your arguments against NIX_SCONS_PATH approach are wrong.
> 
> 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.
Since I don't use scons, I don't want to make a decision here.