Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
> We'll definitely take the environment variable patch if it comes with a > ghcbug script :-) OK, well I'll be busy for the next few weeks so if someone else wants to step up and do it, don't wait for me. But otherwise I'll put in on my todo list. Cheers, Frederik -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
OK, well I'll be busy for the next few weeks so if someone else wants to step up and do it, don't wait for me. But otherwise I'll put in on my todo list. Cheers, Frederik On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:40:03PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 09 March 2005 21:13, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > >>> I agre

RE: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 March 2005 19:55, Frederik Eaton wrote: > I agree that the case you're presenting is indeed more difficult, but > I don't think you're doing the estimations right for the one at hand. > The cost and annoyance of perhaps tens of thousands of people adding > and remembering to maintain wrapper

RE: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 March 2005 21:13, Frederik Eaton wrote: >>> I agree that the case you're presenting is indeed more difficult, >>> but I don't think you're doing the estimations right for the one at >>> hand. The cost and annoyance of perhaps tens of thousands of people >>> adding and remembering to maintain

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread John Meacham
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:12:49PM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > > I agree that the case you're presenting is indeed more difficult, but > > > I don't think you're doing the estimations right for the one at hand. > > > The cost and annoyance of perhaps tens of thousands of people adding > > > an

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:12:49PM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > Are you volunteering to be that person? ;-) > > Are you saying that a patch would be accepted? I am not the one to decide. Best regards Tomasz ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Gl

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
> > I agree that the case you're presenting is indeed more difficult, but > > I don't think you're doing the estimations right for the one at hand. > > The cost and annoyance of perhaps tens of thousands of people adding > > and remembering to maintain wrappers named 'ghc' somewhere in their > > pa

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:55:11AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > I am still not convinced that it is a good idea to add such > > functionality to GHC. Do you want to persuade developers of > > every program you use to add similar feature? > > Is the perceived difficulty of that task an argument

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:27:28AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > > > > > > I was complaing (only to myself) that rsync doesn't allow to put some > > > common opt

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:27:28AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > > > > I was complaing (only to myself) that rsync doesn't allow to put some > > common options in ~/.rsyncrc or an environment variable. Then I simply > > added an a

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:01:40AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:19:18PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > On 09 March 2005 08:29, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > > > > Oh, is that the only reason? That's a t

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:01:40AM -0800, Frederik Eaton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:19:18PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > > On 09 March 2005 08:29, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > > Oh, is that the only reason? That's a terrible reason to not have a > feature. :) You could just write a 'ghcbug'

Re: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:19:18PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 09 March 2005 08:29, Frederik Eaton wrote: > > > Is it possible to set environment variables which ghc will look at, > > corresponding to command line options such as '-i' or '-package-conf'? > > I.e. the equivalent of gcc's LIBRAR

RE: environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09 March 2005 08:29, Frederik Eaton wrote: > Is it possible to set environment variables which ghc will look at, > corresponding to command line options such as '-i' or '-package-conf'? > I.e. the equivalent of gcc's LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH, etc... or perl's > PERL5LIB or even PERL5OPT (which is th

environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
Is it possible to set environment variables which ghc will look at, corresponding to command line options such as '-i' or '-package-conf'? I.e. the equivalent of gcc's LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH, etc... or perl's PERL5LIB or even PERL5OPT (which is the most flexible). These would be really convenient sinc

environment variables for ghc

2005-03-09 Thread Frederik Eaton
Is it possible to set environment variables which ghc will look at, corresponding to command line options such as '-i' or '-package-conf'? I.e. the equivalent of gcc's LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH, etc... or perl's PERL5LIB or even PERL5OPT (which is the most flexible). These would be really convenient sinc