[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 06/12] Hob: allow users to setup the proxies

[Wang, Shane]

Joshua Lock wrote on 2012-03-20:

> 
> 
> On 16/03/12 08:10, Shane Wang wrote:
>> This patch is to set os.environ to allow users to set the environment
> variables for http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy.
> 
> I think we need to be careful about implementing this functionality, so
> I have two suggestions
> 1) As far as I can tell the proxy settings will not be remembered
> between runs of the Hob, I think they probably should be.
Yes.

> 2) If the user already has some or all of the proxy settings set in
> their environment we should probably detect those and display them
> appropriately in the GUI.
OK, will investigate and have a try.

> 
> Are their any design documents for this dialogue?
No.

> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua