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

[Zhao Zhang]

I think it is from swift web page some time ago.

zhao

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> There are legitimate cases for setting the classpath. Not so much for
> SWIFT_HOME.
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> Zhao, why do you set SWIFT_HOME?
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> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:27 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
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>>> There you go. You have "." in you classpath, and you're running swift
>>> from ~/swift/etc which contains a bogus vdl-int.k
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>> That's hit someone before, maybe Nika when she was trying to use falkon?
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>>> 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?
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>> I was thinking very similar about SWIFT_HOME yesterday, which similarly 
>> appears to only have use in screwing up installations.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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