>> I don't usually like to say "why bother", but given 9vx could be >> launched with the appropriate parameter from a 2 line shell script >> (including the #!), why are you even debating this? > > wow... I can understand people not liking checking the environmental > variables as it does increase the complexity, but I would have thought that > changing the default lookup from /home/rcs... would not have been a problem. > I guess I was wrong about that.
the point is that any default is bound to be wrong. my guess is that '/home/rsc/...' default was introduced early in the development and before '-r' was added. it might be more useful to lobby for a default location like '/usr/lib/9vx'. secondly writing $ NINEROOT=/usr/ebo/9vxroot 9vx is less pleasant than: $ 9vx -r /usr/ebo/9vxroot it's true that NINEROOT can be set and forgotten about, but the same argument could be made for writing a shell function that aliases 9vx to '9vx -r ...' etc -- and probably in the same place, e.g. .profile.
