Why did you remove that "unnecessary" link?

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Aug 14 18:07:47 UTC 2016


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> You broke my test setup.  The purpose of that link was to allow the
> neighboring pyntpq script to import ntp.packet even when the corresponding
> Python module under pylib hasn't been installed in rootspace.  Which it
> never is, yet - the waf production to do that hasn't landed.

> I guess I'll add a README so this doesn't happen again. 

Sorry.  I thought I was helping by removing some cruft.  It built and tested 
without that link.

Can you add a test that will catch it?

That opens up the whole mess of testing with local libraries vs installed 
libraries.  I remember lots of "fun" in that area for gpsd.


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