Greetings,
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> The problems are obvious, we would either need a single directory
> or a standard system for adding, removing & promoting packages on the PATH
> (which is complicated as a system like this needs to be shell-specific
> anyway).
We (Glasgow) have a system like this for managing paths and stuff, so
you can type `use idl55', and your PATH, MANPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and other things, are adjusted to use that software version, in a
way which copes with both sh and csh, and which is easy to maintain.
The script is fiddly rather than terribly hard, but I can assert that
it does work perfectly satisfactorily.
That's about a quarter of two penn'orth.
Norman
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