i'm in

exiter.py

and seeing

# Always output the unhandled exception details into a log file.

above a call to

_log_exception()

, which proceeds to not log anything if the workdir was not provided to the Exiter instance through a previous

apply_options()

call. both the

self._workdir

and

self._should_print_backtrace

are bootstrap options -- i think there's a thing you can do with OptionsBootstrapper to get those options anywhere so i'm looking for that and I was going to make sure those fields were populated without having to call

apply_options()

(this is for https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/6388). does that sound outrageously wrong?