Re: *skribe-rc-directory* and HOME

[Jonathan McHugh]

Hi Arun,

Having Laminar tightly coupled with Skribilo sounds very cool and could open up 
some interesting avenues for workflow.

Keep me informed regarding how this progresses, given that Ill be planning to 
use Laminar as part of the ecosystem Im developing.

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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels

October 17, 2021 7:02 AM, "Arun Isaac" <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a laminar continuous integration service for
> skribilo. I am building skribilo in an environment where the HOME
> environment variable is not defined. In that environment, the
> *skribe-rc-directory* definition in line 108 of
> src/guile/skribilo/utils.scm errors out since getenv returns #f and #f
> is not a string. How should we handle this?
> 
> 1. Should I just setenv HOME in my CI build script?
> 2. Or, should we define some better value for *skribe-rc-directory* in
> the absence of HOME?
> 
> I think option 2 is better, but can't decide what that better value
> should be.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Regards,
> Arun