From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Adding to the end of the load path Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:06:55 -0800 Message-ID: <50A680BF.5030208@gnu.org> References: <87sj8o20v0.fsf@googlemail.com> <87liecucrz.fsf@delenn.home.rotty.xx.vu> <87k3tpkyeg.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9uied25.fsf@delenn.home.rotty.xx.vu> <87fw4atrjz.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353089228 6075 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 18:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mark H Weaver , =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= , guile-devel To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 19:07:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJx-0007uX-Un for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:07:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJn-0002CB-Ks for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJi-0002BR-4Z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJf-000226-2r for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJe-000221-VH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-76-254-30-155.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([76.254.30.155]:65382 helo=[192.168.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZQJd-0003vl-LD; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:06:57 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121025 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15181 Archived-At: On 11/15/12 16:10, Noah Lavine wrote: > Given that the module-lookup system is fundamentally complicated, I'm going to > suggest that we *don't* try to make it all configurable by environment variables. > If people want full control of lookups, they can write a site-wide Guile init > file or a personal ~/.guile. The regular load-path would still be part of the > system, and that would be configurable by an environment variable, so legacy > setups would continue to work. However, I'd be happy saying that if you wanted > to access all of the functionality, you need to write Scheme code. Let's start > by adding Scheme interfaces to the functionality we want, and maybe not worry > about environment variables if they're complicated. > > What do you think? Yes!! With that, can the LD_LIBRARY_PATH be freed from fiddling?