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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 30-Jun-1999, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good.

> > > 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).

Sounds fine.

> Do I need to worry about backwards compatibility?

That's not essential for this change, I think.  If doing so is easy,
then go ahead, but otherwise don't worry about it.

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