The stand-alone bootstrap.py script actually has a --no-interactive option (which answers 'yes' to everything) but the mach wrapper doesn't support this.
`mach mercurial-setup` takes an --update-only option. Maybe we implementing something like that for `mach boostrap` would help. Or calling it something more descriptive like `mach update-deps`. Like mercurial-setup, it could still use the bootstrap python module to install things. While the two use cases are different, it makes sense to share code between an initial development environment setup script and one that updates that environment. -r On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Ethan Glasser-Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I think my real question is "What is the intended way for > developers to keep their development environment up-to-date?" I don't think > that way should require a developer to answer questions, because the > answers presumably haven't changed since the last time they answered them. > If the intended way is `mach bootstrap`, then I think `mach bootstrap` > should have an option to skip the questions[*]. If `mach bootstrap` is only > intended to run once when setting up a new development environment, then > maybe there should be a `mach tune-up` command or something like that. > > I'm happy to file bugs for whichever is the case, but I'm not sure which > one it is. > > Ethan > > [*] When using `./mach bootstrap --settings ./mozconfig`, I get: `The > bootstrap command does not accept the arguments: --settings ./mozconfig`. > When using `./mach --settings ./mozconfig bootstrap`, I get the questions. > > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Geoffrey Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure. I always just answer the prompts and am happy with that. >> >> There is a --settings option, which sounds like it might be helpful, but I >> don't have any experience with that. >> >> - Geoff >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Ethan Glasser-Camp < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to run it without having to reanswer the configuration >>> questions? >>> >>> Ethan >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
