[m-dev.] For review: using alternate installation dirs

[Warwick Harvey]

Fergus wrote:
> On 29-Jun-1999, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> > OK, how about s/MOD/INIT/g for the environment variables?
> 
> That'd be OK.  I think `MERCURY_LIB_INIT_DIR' and `MERCURY_LIB_INIT_FILES'
> might be slightly nicer, but that's getting down to matters of personal
> preference.

How about just `MERCURY_INIT_DIR' and `MERCURY_INIT_FILES'?  I think that's 
a little more consistent with the naming of the other variables.

> > I suppose it'd be nice if all the old ones were changed too?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > (Agh, I can hear the cries of 
> > "separate change" already...  That'd be #4 from this stuff.  :-)

I plan to do the old ones after I've committed the first phase of the 
alternate installation dir stuff, to reduce the number of conflicts I'll 
have to merge (though this will mean a short-term mismatch between the 
naming schemes of the old vars and the new ones I introduce).

Do I need to worry about backwards compatibility?

Warwick

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