Re: exim4

[Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>]

Jakob Hirsch <jh@plonk.de> writes:

> Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> 
> >>I've wondered about that myself. If the binaries are installed somewhere
> >>in $PATH, wouldn't that provide sufficient method for finding them?
> > I would prefer for security reasons not to start parsing environment
> > variables.
> 
> Sounds sensible, but mlmmj uses execvp, which uses PATH itself, so why
> should you have to parse that yourself?
> Another possibility would be to use a hard coded path from configure
> or some header file.

The currently implemented approach works very well. I for one don't like
it when things have to change for no good reason.

If it is so annoying to use the full path, write a wrapper.

>  > Besides, with this method, you can have many mlmmj
> > installations in parallel.
> 
> mlmmj uses no config file, so what's the use? Having different
> versions of mlmmj running? That should be done with configure's
> --program-suffix. Otherwise you end up having a directory for every
> mlmmj installation.

A directory for every installation seems far less confusing than one
directory clobbered with mulitple version from my point of view.

-- 
Christian Laursen