This went in to 3.1 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-164
I agree - the docs need to be updated if there is consensus on the use of this method. Personally I think that there should be one supported method, not both dot and underscore. I would prefer that we remove the dot functionality since it is not operational across all environments, but it isn't up to me alone to remove functionality. -----Original Message----- From: Chen, Pei [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 4:08 PM To: <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: UMLS Env variables suggestion I believe Sean updated the code to also support underscore (_) as well. But the docs just need to be updated... > On Jan 4, 2014, at 4:04 PM, "Dewful" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the documentation, in the .sh files to run ctakes; > > # If you plan to use the UMLS Resources, set/export env variables # > export ctakes.umlsuser=[username], ctakes.umlspw=[password] > > however, simply trying to > > export ctakes.umlsuser=myusername, ctakes.umlspw=mypassword > > doesnt work because bash3 doesnt allow dots in the keyname and will > throw an error > > bin/runctakesCVD.sh: line 42: export: `ctakes.umlsuser=username,': not > a valid identifier > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15016403/how-to-export-dot-separate > d-environment-variablesexplains > some solutions > > it may be helpful to show how the user can set these easily if they > want to set the env variables this way, possibly using one of the suggestions > in SO. > > N
