Glynn wrote: > Because it's one more unnecessary environment variable. > Some systems have a limit (4k is common) on the > combined memory used by the environment and the command > line, so enlarging the environment reduces the maximum > length of a command.
fair enough. but, > A single environment variable is sufficient to find all > components of an add-on. The original idea seems to > have been based upon the assumption that an add-on > would consist of a single script, with no additional > files. right. > That assumption should be false for anything from > the add-ons repository as per longer explanation in a prior email, I'd argue that the case of the single personal script with no support files is still at least co-equal if not the dominant instance for addon scripts. we hear about g.extension disproportionally because it's a tricky cross platform dance to get it working smoothly and folks probably don't bother us much with errors in their personal workflows. greets from SFO, Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
