- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:31:26 +0000
- To: "Vasil Rangelov" <boen.robot@gmail.com>
- Cc: <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>
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In my opinion, the cost-benefit on this has gotten out of hand --
designing ways to mess about with environment variables which
reproduce the complexities of the union of all the likely
platforms. . . Just say 'no'!
Having said that, the documentation probably does need to say
_something_ about environment variables, even if it's no more than "It
is implementation-defined what environment variables, if any, are
passed down." I know from bitter experience that if steps are _not_
taken to pass the SYSTEMROOT env. var. when running on Windoz OSes
then obscure failures result. . .
ht
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