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Re: No environment variables (was: svn commit: r33767 - trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra)

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:11:31 +0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)

Ping.

The code hasn't been reverted, and I don't see consensus reached in the
thread. What's the current consensus?

Daniel

Julian Foad wrote on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 at 11:45 +0100:
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:56 -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> > Woah...
> >
> > I don't support this change. One of svn's design points when we first
> > started was "no environment variables". Yes, we have some, but each
> > was considered carefully before adding. The reason to avoid
> > environment variables is that they subtly alter the operation of the
> > software. If you have/don't-have the variable defined, then the code
> > acts quite differently.
>
> Heh. I support the position of "no environment variables", but it's
> harder than that to explain the reason. (The reader who needs convincing
> responds to the above with, "Well, duh, of course that's what they do.
> Just like other kinds of configuration settings. That's the whole
> point!") The reasons why an environment variable is not good for this
> kind of setting have to do with the disconnect between where the
> settings are configured (in some arbitrary shell script) and where
> they're used (in Subversion), the ephemeral nature of the "environment",
> e.g. it changes when you enter or leave a sub-shell, and things like
> that.
>
> Arfrever, if there are reasons why it is much better to allow this to be
> configured by an env var, please say. (Being convenient for testing is
> not a sufficient reason.)
>
> - Julian
>
>
> > Our goal was to make Subversion's operation as
> > obvious and straight-forward as possible, and one of the ways to that
> > was to minimize the use of environment variables.
> >
> > In this case, a user can set a configuration value, so there is no
> > need for an environment variable.
> >
> > -g
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, <arfrever_at_tigris.org> wrote:
> > > Author: arfrever
> > > Date: Sun Oct 19 18:31:27 2008
> > > New Revision: 33767
> > >
> > > Log:
> > > Support SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY environment variable for specifying which HTTP library
> > > should be used.
> > >
> > > * subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c
> > > (svn_ra_open3): Use SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY environment variable if it exists.
> > > Otherwise use http-library configuration option.

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