On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshor...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 18.05.2013 08:09, Russel Winder wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 00:57 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Russel,
>>>
>> […]
>>
>>> the bootstrap.py works fine for me, I guess because I have a
>>> "src/engine" folder. Where did yours go? ;)
>>>
>> Still exactly where it has always been, in the repository:
>>
>> |> python /home/users/russel/**Repositories/Mercurial/**
>> Masters/SCons_D_Tooling/**bootstrap.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>
>>
> But it still works if you start the "bootstrap.py" from the top-level
> folder ("SCons_D_Tooling" in your case), right?
>
> For the doc toolchain changes I also added some basic support for
> wildcards in the Manifest files, and I use os.chdir inside...this obviously
> breaks "bootstrap.py" when calling it from another path. I wasn't aware
> that this functionality was ever supported and had assumed that the whole
> bootstrapping process would have several hardcoded paths and stuff anyway.
> Sorry about that...
>
> I'll have a look and see if I can improve things, or if we have to switch
> back to the old handling of Manifest files.


I sometimes use bootstrap.py from a different dir too.  I think it's
moderately important to preserve that.
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