Re: [edk2-buildtools] [edk2] [RFC] Proposal to retire edk2-buildtools sub-project

[Andrew F. <af...@ap...>]

On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Jordan Justen <jlj...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Tian, Hot <hot...@in...> wrote:
>> Defer the binary pull to build time is incompatible change. There may be
>> cases that we don’t have network access when build the code.
> 
> I guess I would consider this in the same bucket as not downloading
> IASL before going offline. In other words, you better make sure your
> build environment is setup before going offline or you might not be
> able to build.
> 

Yes I would advocate doing the edksetup.bat/edksetup.sh (Cygwin) activity prior to disconnecting from the network. It would be part of the download instructions. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish