----- "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2010, at 5:09 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> 
> >
> > ----- "R.I.Pienaar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> ----- "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, as I said above, we've gotten pretty far afield from
> where
> >>
> >>> this started.  I think the solution for 2.6 is to include Ohad's
> >>> variant of extlookup, probably naming the function 'lookup'.  As
> >> much
> >>> as I'd love to get it static, I don't think it's reasonable on
> the
> >>
> >>> timeframe we're on.
> >>
> >> if you did http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1545 you'd get
> >> module path searching for free in extlookup.
> >
> > actually i lie, it wouldnt work with environments still but thats an
>  
> > easy fix.
> >
> >
> >> And you wouldnt loose the features ohad didnt implement in his  
> >> version
> >> of extlookup.
> >
> > point remains, if you merge Ohads version that lacks some features, 
> 
> > current extlookup users will be still stuck maintaining extlookup  
> > probably.
> >
> > You never replied to my mail regarding the nasty global variable  
> > approach to configuring both extlookup and ohad's that I think just 
> 
> > isnt right if you're going to merge it.  Can you think of a quick  
> > easy way to improve that?
> 
> What is the global variable problem, again?

configuring the search order and behavior of the tools is done with a variable 
in site.pp, which feels very hacky to me.

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