On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:00, Bernie Pope
<florbitous@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 April 2010 19:00, Sean Leather <
leather@cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> I created a few tools to help me manage multiple GHC distributions in a Bash
> shell environment. Perhaps it's useful to others.
>
>
http://github.com/spl/multi-ghc
>
> Feedback welcome. I'd also like to know if something similar exists.
http://modules.sourceforge.net/
We use it at work for managing multiple versions of lots of different
programs on a shared machine.
It looks interesting! Thanks.
It makes me sad to see it written in Tcl. I spent way too much time with the language at my last job and did not enjoy it. But I grant that that is not a reason to avoid using it.
I actually started out doing as they do, changing the PATH, but I decided that was not a great solution for two reasons:
(1) It's inflexible and precludes the ability to set my PATH as I like.
(2) It requires sourcing a script instead of executing it. I didn't like having no separation between my environment and the script's environment. It was too easy to introduce spurious environment variables.
It would be nice if such a tool can potentially be written to work on Windows as well.
Regards,
Sean