On 03/09/2015 02:16 PM, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
>> It would be splendid if we could define modulepath paths with
>> $environment as variable part of path, like this:
>> modulepath = /path/to/$environment/modules
>> manifest = /path/to/$environment/manifest2/
>>
>> Would there be any interest for this feature?
>> If this is implemented for modulepath setting, maybe it should be
>> appropriate to implement it for manifest setting too?
>>
> 
> This scares me a bit. It looks like it has potential to open the can of
> worms known as dynamic environments we managed to put the lid on with
> directory environments. Will have to discuss if this can used to do
> harmful things. If allowed it could only be allowed inside an absolute
> path.

Agreed, there might be security implications.

I also fail to see the value in that. Do you mean to allow an
environment to extend itself to a whole different file system tree?
Wouldn't that just be horrible for organizing things?

Felix

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