[Scons-users] TypeError writing to stderror in MSCommon/Common.py [reformatted]

[Bill Deegan]

What's powershell.exe's default location?
Should we have this on the PATH for win32?


On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:52 PM Joseph C. Brill <jbrill at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> The following approach seems reasonable to suppress the powershell.exe
> invocations in vsdevcmd.bat (VS 2019 16.4) when powershell.exe is not on
> the
> path in function get_output of common.py (comments removed and whitespace
> added):
>
>     vscmd_skip_telemetry = 'VSCMD_SKIP_SENDTELEMETRY'
>
>     vs_vc_vars = [
>         'COMSPEC',
>         vscmd_skip_telemetry,
>         'VS140COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS120COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS110COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS100COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS90COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS80COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS71COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS70COMNTOOLS',
>         'VS60COMNTOOLS',
>     ]
>
>     env['ENV'] = normalize_env(env['ENV'], vs_vc_vars, force=False)
>
>     if vscmd_skip_telemetry not in env['ENV']:
>         if not env.WhereIs('powershell.exe'):
>             env['ENV'][vscmd_skip_telemetry] = '1'
>
> The telemetry environment variable is added to the list passed to normalize
> the environment.
>
> If the user did not define the telemetry environment variable, check to see
> if powershell.exe is on the path.
>
> If powershell.exe is not on the path and the user did not define the
> telemetry variable, add the variable to the environment to suppress
> vsdevcmd.bat from invoking powershell.
>
> If a user really wants telemetry, the user is responsible for getting
> powershell.exe on the system path which would not automatically add the
> telemetry variable to the environment.
>
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