Hi Yaroslav, On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:39:54PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I have ran into Luis's recent blog post > http://www.osehra.org/blog/backporting-fis-gtm-ubuntu-linux-distribution > > Environment Set Up > Setting up the usual environment variables in the bash shell: > export gtm_dist='/usr/lib/fis-gtm/V6.0-003-2~nd12.10_x86_64' # backported > from NeuroDebian > export gtmgbldir=$HOME/data/gtm/database > export gtmroutines="$HOME/data/gtm/o($HOME/data/gtm/r) > $gtm_dist/libgtmutil.so $gtm_dist" > > > Now that Alastair has packaged environment-modules we could start using them I > think, and then in your case it should then be just a matter of > > module load fis-gtm > > which would set all those environments.
Sounds good. > They are usually used in HPC deployments to switch between custom builds > of different versions of software etc. In our case we could unify all this > environment madness as well I guess. I have once posted to our very low > volume > mailing list my brief analysis but haven't heard back/nor have done myself > yet > proper a 'modulefile'. (althgouh I think for ants package it will be the first > to come whenever I find time to figure out what to do with its tests data). > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/neurodebian-devel/2013-December/000397.html > > your input is welcome (I believe you should be able to post without > subscription), or we could continue discussion here ;) >From just reading the mail above the advantages do sound convincing. (The only drabback is that I have some allergy against TCL so I might have some personal trouble with this in hayfever season but this might be just me.) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
