Re: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

K2:
   Thanks for your suggestion. I just send the patch to update Notes in edk2-basetools-win32. 

Thanks
Liming
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kurt Kennett [mailto:Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 11:29 PM
>To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; Zhu, Yonghong
><yonghong.zhu@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Subject: RE: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>
>Ok.  May want to clean up the git .readme pages to not tell people to use
>something that is broken.
>
>K2
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 6:16 PM
>To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>; Zhu, Yonghong
><yonghong.zhu@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Subject: RE: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>
>Yes.  The binary version edk2-BaseTools-win32 doesn't work now. It will not
>be maintained.
>
>If you still want to use the binary version BaseTools, you can switch to version
>dd00d6c9eed34b5b4d3fb0c5a5714ceeaed76165 of edk2-BaseTools-win32. It
>can work.
>
>And, I strongly suggest to run BaseTools Python from source in Windows.
>After you install python27 and set PYTHON_HOME, there is no extra step.
>
>Thanks
>Liming
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
>>Kurt Kennett
>>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2018 11:28 PM
>>To: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>>Subject: Re: [edk2] GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>>
>>Does this mean that I should expect the Win32 tools to not work any
>>more "out of the box" for building images using GenFds?
>>
>>K2
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
>>Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2018 5:35 PM
>>To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>>Cc: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
>>Subject: RE: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>We planned to drop the support of BaseTools Python run from the freeze
>>binary in Windows OS
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>>Please run BaseTools Python from source in Windows. Here is the step
>>wiki
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>>Best Regards,
>>Zhu Yonghong
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
>>Kurt Kennett
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:55 AM
>>To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>>Subject: [edk2] GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>>
>>"genfds" seems broken in latest tiano-win32
>>
>>Can anybody else repo this:
>>
>>C:\repo\tiano-win32>genfds
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File
>>"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line
>>27, in <module>
>>  File "GenFds\GenFds.py", line 24, in <module>
>>ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
>>
>>K2
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