[PATCH wayland-build-tools] Add helper script to setup and use an uninstalled environment

[Emil Velikov]

On 1 September 2016 at 17:49, Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/16 04:13 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:17:09 +0100
>> Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31 August 2016 at 19:10, Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for taking a look!
>>>>
>>>> On 31/08/16 04:22 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>>> On 30 August 2016 at 19:56, Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>>>>>> From: "Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet" <reynaldo at osg.samsung.com>
>>>>>>
> <snip snip snip>
>>>>> As mentioned before using --prefix=$WLD/foo + make install will make
>>>>> things shorter/simpler
>>>>
>>>> Takes more time (waiting for misc relinking during the install - perhaps
>>>> not overly onerous for wayland/weston/libinput), takes more steps
>>>> (performing the install), takes more effort to undo (make distclean is
>>>> essentially a complete uninstall of a package - of course I could have a
>>>> separate prefix for each repo and a bunch more env vars, so perhaps
>>>> that's not an important distinction), takes more space on disk.
>>
>> Even with that explanation which doesn't seem too compelling to me, I'm
>> not sure why anyone would like to run uninstalled apart from some
>> Android hackery, but wayland-build-tools is Bryce's domain so he can
>> decide what goes in there.
>
> Indeed.  As is made obvious by our email addresses, Bryce, Reynaldo and
> I all work for the same company.  So I like to avoid putting pressure on
> Bryce to even review my work, to avoid any appearance of conflict of
> interest.
>
Guess I'm on the other end of the spectrum.

I'd spend the extra time explaining things to colleagues (and
people/project I care about) why, I believe things, are wrong and/or
should be avoided. People that want to see things as
confrontational/conflict of interest/other will always something to
latch on. The ones willing to learn and improve on themselves, will
learn something new (be that me or them).

> But yes, ultimately Bryce's decision (I'd hoped to see an Ack or two
> from "outsiders" that saw this as at least somewhat useful though.)
>
> We're fine using this script privately if nobody else wants it - the
> intent was to share it, not promote or force an undesirable workflow on
> others.
>
Never mentioned or implied that that it's bad idea to have it and/or
it's unwanted. I'm saying that one can do better, providing example(s)
and reasoning.
One can always do things their way.

To top it up with another (cheesy) quote - "Hell... you can drive a
car with your feet. That doesn't make it a good idea.".
Yet regardless of arguments, some people think it's wise to do so :-(

Emil