[Scons-dev] SCons doesn't bootstrap without libxml2

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> Anatoly,

>

> bootstrap.py is not meant to be run by users, only developers.


I believe there is a terminology confusion. User is anybody who uses SCons.
Developer is anybody with commit right to the SCons repository.

When a person makes checkout of SCons to debug, check fixes or try
new features, this person is still a user and this person needs a quick
way to know that the SCons is not broken. Running tests takes a loooot
of time, so most users won't survive long enough to become developers.