Hold these comments for the draft's mailing list, please. -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 19:47 -0500, Eduardo Cavazos wrote: > > The operating system environment variable > SCHEME_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS, > if it is defined, is used to initialize > the search paths parameter. > > It would be awesome if the usual suspects (Ikarus, Ypsilon, Mosh, > IronScheme, etc.) could start adopting at least this part already. Of > course, they'd still have their own implementation specific environment > variables for locations that hold libraries only for that implementation. > > This is what I currently do: > > export SCHEME_LIBRARIES=/scheme:/home/dharmatech/scheme > > export MOSH_LOADPATH=$SCHEME_LIBRARIES > > export IKARUS_LIBRARY_PATH=$SCHEME_LIBRARIES > > export YPSILON_SITELIB=$SCHEME_LIBRARIES > > export MOSH_LOADPATH=$SCHEME_LIBRARIES > > So it would help me out. And the "install" instructions in packages > would be more uniform, mentioning SCHEME_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS specifically. > > Ed
