Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> 
> Le 24-sept.-08 à 02:04, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
> 
>> The wrapper script is somehow better in a multi-user environment because
>> it is common for all users, so they don't have to modify their own
>> ~/.bash_profile. To sum up:
>>
>> ~/.bash_profile is good because it lets a user define his own settings
>>
>> A common script is good because it lets all users on a system have the
>> same settings for maven, which is good if they ALL need the same 
>> settings.
> 
> I agree.
> Basically upgrading went as follows:
> - install and put a wrapper script mvn-2.9
> - test, let other tests using that command instead (from time to time)
> - when decided to upgrade all replace mvn by a symbolic link to mvn-2.9
> 
>> Using some global initialization file, like /etc/bash/bashrc has the
>> same advantages as the common script file, but also has the advantage
>> that it sets the settings only once, and not every time mvn is executed.
> 
> There's no performance penalty in setting up a few variables! really none.

Not really none, a few nano seconds... Certainly much less that a 
hundredth of a second.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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