Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:30, Will Partain wrote:
>> Could we have something the equivalent of the CVS_SERVER env
>> var.? Or compile-time option; or config file thing; or ...
>
> ... . It really seems simplest to mandate that
> people set up your path correctly on the server.
(Wearing my sysadmin hat:) I try to run things so that users
*never* have to fiddle with their .<shell>rc files. As soon
as you get into "Ah, just add <mumble> to your <blah>rc",
then you're DOOMED. They start blindly copying each other's
files, or fragments thereof, and five years later, you've
got random programs doing weird and wacky stuff because of
some inherited five-times-over .bashrc junk that's
Completely Wrong (TM). If I can add a line to a global
config file and They Never Know, I am much happier.
But I'm pretty easy about the whole thing -- I don't want to
be blamed for any hackish code in Subversion. I spent all
my karma on The Mangler [*] in Glasgow Haskell :-)
Will
[*] The Perl script, perhaps now replaced, which takes GCC
.s output and *mangles* it to produce reasonably zippy
Haskell code, with particular crimes reserved for the x86
lack of registers -- "see that memory reference? replace it
with %eax; trust me..."
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Received on Mon Sep 1 12:36:12 2003