On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:00, Bernie Pope <florbit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 April 2010 19:00, Sean Leather <leat...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > > I created a few tools to help me manage multiple GHC distributions in a > Bash > > shell environment. Perhaps it's useful to others. > > > > http://github.com/spl/multi-ghc > > > > Feedback welcome. I'd also like to know if something similar exists. > > I wonder if you could achieve the desired result with the "Modules > Project": > > http://modules.sourceforge.net/ > > We use it at work for managing multiple versions of lots of different > programs on a shared machine. > It looks interesting! Thanks. It makes me sad to see it written in Tcl. I spent way too much time with the language at my last job and did not enjoy it. But I grant that that is not a reason to avoid using it. I actually started out doing as they do, changing the PATH, but I decided that was not a great solution for two reasons: (1) It's inflexible and precludes the ability to set my PATH as I like. (2) It requires sourcing a script instead of executing it. I didn't like having no separation between my environment and the script's environment. It was too easy to introduce spurious environment variables. It would be nice if such a tool can potentially be written to work on Windows as well. Regards, Sean
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