On 08/21/09 22:31, John Fischer wrote: > This project proposes to integrate the Environment Modules within a > Minor release of Solaris (i.e., Open Solaris). The environment modules > provides an easy modification to a user's environment via TCL scripts. > These scripts set various environmental variables such as PATH, MANPATH, > etc.
I'm not sure my remarks make any PSARC sense, but since there is no rationale mentioned for integrating this, I'm inclined to ask anyway: Does it really make sense to force people into being able to read/ write TCL in order for them to configure their shell? I imagine that most of the modulefile(4)s would be written by administrators (how many of them speak TCL?), but users will have to debug/override any settings they want to tweak. I'm just wondering why we pick a TCL-based configuration tool for something like this. If the answer is Linux-compatibility, I think there is enough precedent, whether I like it or not. Otherwise, I'm not sure that we build a useful architecture here. Joep
