On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Axel Hecht <l...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Am 27.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Nathan Froyd: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:40 AM Axel Hecht <l...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Can we please not force bootstrap? > >> > >> +1. In general bootstrap isn't "rock solid" enough to force people > >> into running it. > > > > If people have problems with bootstrap (it doesn't do enough, it > > assumes too much about your system, etc. etc.), please file bugs on > > what's wrong. We need to start depending more on bootstrap for > > everything, to the point of "you can't depend on X unless it gets > > installed via bootstrap", and we can't get to that world if we don't > > know what rough edges people find in bootstrap. > > Do you have a suggestion on how to do that in practice? Rolling back > from a broken development environment is easily a couple of hours of > work, in the case of homebrew breaking all my virtualenvs, for example.
It's not clear to me what bootstrap does that breaks things. Do you want the ability to skip installing everything via homebrew? -Nathan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
