This package is needed for a $Supported code project we are working on in HPC. Since we are already porting this for our project we are directed to make the package available to all and also so it is available via the IPS package server on opensolaris.org.
Bruce On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Joep Vesseur wrote: > 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 -------------- next part -------------- Bruce Rothermal Email: bruce.rothermal at sun.com Skype: bruce.rothermal Google Talk: bruce.rothermal at gmail.com
