Re: Feedbackcarl (fwd)

[Lee McLoughlin <lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk>]

On Jan 22, 10:19am, "Carl Malamud [IMS]" wrote:
} Subject: Re: Feedbackcarl (fwd)
} 
} > Lessons learned today: Non-trivial cgi scripts contain absolute
} > file system paths in them. We should come up with standard way
} > of telling these programs where the virtual file system root is.
} > e.g. Specify SCRIPT_ROOT as /cp/htdocs/Tools (for japan.park.org)
} > or /web/fair/Tools (for park.org) using environment variable,
} > and then use $SCRIPT_ROOT/Architext like convention.
} > 
} 
} Welcome to the Malamud School of Cheap Hacks.  We'll point all that
} stuff back over into us until we figure out how to do it right.  How's
} that for a solution?  Push later tonite of updated files (I have to go
} change ~300 html files :<<).