On 31 Aug 07, at 3:38 AM 31 Aug 07, Graham Leggett wrote:
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.
I understand after looking at some heavy use and really it would be
quite painful to stop using them. I don't think they lend toward
stability but they are used now. So I think being practical and not
causing undo grief trumps theoretical purity.
Regards,
Graham
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Thanks,
Jason
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