Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-04-08 Thread Hal Wine
just a meta note -- there are 181 bugs open in the mach component, of which only 3 are mentored and none marked "good first bug" (which the resolution to this discussion sounds like) changing any of that should improve the scratchability of the itch On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Gregory Szorc

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-04-07 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > Random related thoughts: > > Most people who run mach bootstrap already have a clone of > mozilla-central. Which means they could run any other mach command as > well. With thing moving off autoconf into our shiny new stuff that can > do whate

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-04-07 Thread Mike Hommey
Random related thoughts: Most people who run mach bootstrap already have a clone of mozilla-central. Which means they could run any other mach command as well. With thing moving off autoconf into our shiny new stuff that can do whatever we decide to put into it, we could have a `mach configure --b

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-04-07 Thread Gregory Szorc
The current reason we separate is to install the minimum set of required dependencies for developing any particular product. We've always wanted bootstrap to more seamlessly transition into "and configure VCS, clone the repository, configure the build, and perform the build" but we haven't execute

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-03-30 Thread Brad Lassey
bah.. fat fingers. Nick and Benjamin just gave two different reasons for this menu. If it is just to download the tools needed to build, let's give that context. Including an option for both would be good as well. If the intention is to set a mozconfing, I'm note sure that belongs here, maybe do t

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-03-30 Thread Brad Lassey
Nick and Benjamin just gave two different reasons -Brad On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > > > On 3/30/2016 1:06 PM, Brad Lassey wrote: > >> I'm setting up a new linux machine and just ran mach for the first time. >> The first thing I'm presented with is: >> >> Please c

Re: mach bootstrap menu

2016-03-30 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Brad Lassey wrote: > I'm setting up a new linux machine and just ran mach for the first time. > |mach bootstrap|? > The first thing I'm presented with is: > > Please choose the version of Firefox you want to build > 1. Firefox for Desktop > 2. Firefox for