Re: RFC 114 (v2) Perl resource configuration

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> but that is the user's to set. PERL_PRELOAD 
TC> is there for the user to unset.

>> allows the admin to globally
>> set (in the system shell rc file) the rc files that perl will load. 

TC> And what sorts of things might the admin care to globally set?

I actually might have found it useful as a way of avoiding a
. ~/.profile in a crontab. 

A perl program would be externally customized based upon the machine/
user/whatver running it. A single 'executable' that can have itself
configure.

Yes, one could do it in the shell/program, but a simple 'standard'
method might be worthwhile.

use perlrc qw(:system :user);

Though the range of options and settings are probably so vast that
a single module capable of handling all scenerios would be so large
and slow that all gains would be lost just in the invocation.

<chaim>
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