I wanted to weigh in with a path related issue that came up in the LaTeX tools.
My question is where does Scons stand these days on the issue of paths and not using the whole user environment by default? For Macs, the Latex tools were rarely on the default paths that Scons searched and therefore you had to create an Environment that included os.environ's path. This was a real pain since most of the test/TEX/* files did not do thatŠ So what I came up with and is in the code base now is to add to the path the directories that the system adds to its path for installed features like Latex and X11. We did this because Mac OSX has a standard file/directory (/etc/paths and /etc/paths.d/*) that lists directories that get added to the system path. Is there a similar set of paths on Windows that we should add to the default? Or is there a place to look for a path when initializing a specific tool that needs a given executable or set of executables? I think is one issue that needs work as we discuss tool initialization. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan email managan at llnl.gov LLNL phone: 925-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-095 FAX: 925-422-3389 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 On 12/20/12 9:09 AM, "Dirk Bächle" <tshor...@gmx.de> wrote: >Hello developers, > >based on my proposed changes to the current tests in src/test there has >been some discussion about how a Tool should work. Especially in >connection with the LaTeX Tool, questions like: > > - Do we want to have one "latex" Tool for all, or separate ones for >"miktex", "texlive"...? > - Should a Tool try to find a "Miktex" installation in the current >system, or simply search for > the "latex" executable while relying on a correct setup of the PATH >variable? > >showed up. > _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev