On 01/29/2011 06:35 PM, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Andy Wingo writes:
>
>> I would also mention the approach from the skeleton package, which you
>> can fetch from http://wingolog.org/git/skeleton.git. `autoreconf -vif',
>> `./configure', and `make'. It has a toplevel `env' script, similar to
>> other environment scripts needed for other languages that tweak
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Thanks. It seems a shame, and less portable, for us to rely on shell
> script wrappers. But given that we're talking about uninstalled stuff,
> and that it seems extremely unlikely for a development machine not to
> have a decent shell, I guess that's actually OK.
>
> Neil
>
Hi all,
I don't post to this list very often, since I'm not using guile much
these days. I use python by necessity (necessity=that or C++) for work.
My work, however, involves principally writing and running single-use
code for physics analyses. Installing this code would simply not make
any sense. Hence I use uninstalled code quite extensively, almost
exclusively. This seems to work quite well in python, which further
seems to have unified package-internal references with uninstalled-code
references very neatly. I can't comment on the security or reliability
implications of Guido's arrangement, however.
Just thought I'd weigh in with a use-case in the wild.
Regards,
Jon
