[Swift-devel] could swift use return code from falkon as a success notification?

[Mihael Hategan]

There are legitimate cases for setting the classpath. Not so much for
SWIFT_HOME.

Zhao, why do you set SWIFT_HOME?


On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:27 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > There you go. You have "." in you classpath, and you're running swift
> > from ~/swift/etc which contains a bogus vdl-int.k
> 
> That's hit someone before, maybe Nika when she was trying to use falkon?
> 
> > 1. Swift/cog launchers using a pre-existing CLASSPATH has so far caused
> > only problems and I have never heard of anybody having a legitimate use
> > for this behavior (which may be because people don't complain if they
> > don't have a problem). So I'm thinking of removing that. Any opinions?
> 
> I was thinking very similar about SWIFT_HOME yesterday, which similarly 
> appears to only have use in screwing up installations.
> 
> CLASSPATH would have use if people started trying to do link/run time 
> loading of interesting things, rather than compiling stuff into the source 
> directory. But that doesn't happen.
> 
> I think I'm happy with both of those being ignored from the calling 
> environment, or at least a stern warning being given or both.
>