Sérgio Almeida wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:22 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>>> if cmd = 'chdir':
>>> uprofile
>> ..., the automatism for the 'cd' command feels like more
>> confusing than useful...
> Atm, cd just changes dir as it is supposed to. Robert alerted us to the
> fact that we can trigger a PRE_CMD on most shells when a CHANGEDIR
> occurs.
>> Instead, provide a command to update the environment for the current
>> directory, which does search for an .uprofile/ in all the parent
>> directories when there is no local one.
>> Additionally, (let the user) define a *new* command that does both
>> changing directory and updating the environment.
>>
>
> This is the question... Call uprofile manually or detect the profile
> automatically? Both capabilities? Mmm...
I'd say leave it to the user to either use the CHANGEDIR event,
or define some alias like 'ucd', or call 'uprofile' manually only.
Eh - provide an uselect-module to select the variant...
>> Another point: the per-directory profile solution feels like there is no
>> need to distinguish between user- and directory-profile any more - as
>> the user-profile would not be anything different than ~/.uprofile/, no?
>
> Yes and no. ~/.uselect/ contains a bin/ environment (prepended to your
> PATH by /etc/profile or something) a env.d/ and most probabily
> something else that gets executed uppon login.
>
> This does not invalidate you having a ~/.uprofile/. uprofile will
> configure your ~/.uselect/ and your environment variables. Your user
> profile will not be interpreted by python, uprofile turns profile files
> (from python) into bin/ and env.d/ environment on your ~/.uselect.
Ohw, there is .uselect/{bin,env.d}/ ...
What about a per-directory .uselect/{bin,env.d}/ too?
I'd like to set up the complete environment/profile for a development project,
to completely take precedence over the users' environment/profile who are
working on that project, to have something like this order:
PATH=/my/project/.uselect/bin:/home/user/.uselect/bin:/etc/.uselect/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
Maybe this already is how it works?
>
> This may seem confusing, but that's the best way I can explain. Later
> this weekend will send a call for ideas/call for modules to the dev
> list to get everyone known with the uselect environment. I'm just
> finishing cleaning up the code to start commiting and using git
> branches.
Whenever I come to test uselect/uprofile, I'll do this in Gentoo Prefix
on several platforms, not on my stable Gentoo Desktop...
Thank you!
/haubi/
