On May 25, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
I think the desired default behavior is going to vary with the user, so I suggest auto caching by default should be a configured option.
So, you have to set your preferences about how you want to set your preferences? Nop. Too many variables. Plus, now the OS-package maintainers would have to decide on this, and we'd get different behaviors and you won't know what you're getting.
If you're going to use a ~/.ikarus to store compiled files, I would also suggest making an ~/.ikarusrc file which would contain the auto caching option and the library paths.
Yes, we'd want ~/.ikarusrc anyways for things that you can't set from the command line or through environment variables. (this is another discussion though)
but if you have reasons for preferring environment variables that would be fine too.
So, we have the following options 1. set through a command-line switch 2. set through environment variables 3. set through .ikarusrc or programmatically at run time I need to think more about this. Aziz,,,
