Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?
Hello,
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 01:59, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
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>
> > I also don't know whether upstream would approve of one of my
> > improvements. I figured out how to make it unnecessary to set most of
> > the Geant 4 environment variables by writing a couple of wrapper
> > scripts: "g4make" to run make, and "g4run" to run a Geant 4 executable,
> > in a subshell with the relevant env. variables set. (I also wrote a
> > couple of scripts, env.sh and env.csh, that people can optionally source
> > in their login files instead of using the wrapper scripts if they really
> > want a polluted environment namespace.) See the README.Debian in the
> > geant4 source package (see below) for more info.
>
> In my humble opinion, wrapper scripts are ugly. That said, I could
> imagine that it would be the best solution (for now) to package GEANT 4
> - it's a mess when it comes to environment variables. However, in the
> long run, it'd probably be better to lobby for cleaning the code of
> environment variables - after all, GEANT 4 is really a library, not a
> specific application.
>
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What's about the idea to switch to init files?
A default in /etc and also a user init file in $HOME.
But then it looks more like to be implemented by upstream.
Kind Regards,
Thomas
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