[21] in Locker Maintainers
Re: shared "binary" directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Fri Jan 23 01:05:58 1998
To: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>, locker-maintainers@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:58:05 EST."
<199801230558.AAA20854@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 01:05:50 EST
> 2) most such scripts aren't really completely platform-independant,
> especially portable to a completely new platform. If you're not
> worried about being able to support new platforms, then there's
> little reason to put it in the path. If you do worry about that,
> then, IMHO, it is reasonable to require locker maintainers to go to
> extra effort to support a new platform.
Actually, this is the biggest reason I would like to see a
standardized place for non-machine-specific scripts. I often run
machines of random platforms which no locker maintainer will ever
support, and I would like to be able to run those scripts without
manually grovelling around to find out where the scripts are in that
particular locker.
Moving to ATHENA_SYS_PATH strikes me as a move toward
freeing the user from the mercy of the locker maintainers, and I'd
like to push that premise as far as it can go.
- Nathan
