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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork
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Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:22:34 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden>
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> > BTW, how about an "ARCH_HAT" environment variable? Could be very handy
> > for scripting.
> I had actually thought about that as an alternative to my-default-hat,
> but I haven't fully thought it out yet to see if it's a good idea or
> not. (I can't see anything wrong with it, and if no one else does
> then I'll hack something up.)
IMO, environment variable parameter passing is almost never the right
thing: it's too easy for it to go wrong (e.g., passing an environment
parameter accidentally).
It's better to get as far as we can without such a mechanism, via
persistent (per-user, per-tree, etc.) defaults and customizable
namespace-pattern-based rules and the like.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Miles Bader, 2004/08/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/08/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork,
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Tom Lord, 2004/08/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, James Blackwell, 2004/08/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, tomas, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Tla spork, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/08/26