[Rock-dev] Autoproj v2

[Sylvain Joyeux]

> 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.sylvain at 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