On Fri, August 31, 2007 12:10 pm, Jason van Zyl wrote:

> As much I don't particularly like them, I've seen so many builds of
> late using envars that I don't think we can turn them off in 2.1.x
> after people have invested in builds that use them. Tonight Vlad and
> I were working on the IDEA integration and there are a few issues
> logged that fail because envars are not currently processed in trunk.
>
> I think we have to live with them now.
>
> If no one objects I will plan to turn them back on.

For the history of what happened when Sun tried to remove support for
environment variables see this:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4199068

Due to overwhelming protest Sun eventually reversed their decision and put
environment variables back in.

Regards,
Graham
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