Bundled Compiler Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009]

[Chris Quenelle]

Danek Duvall wrote:
> My suggestion was that exposing /usr/compilers (and /usr/compilers/bin) is
> unnecessary, since the project's interfaces will be delivered in /usr/bin,
> the need to choose another version of the product can be done by modifying
> $PATH to point first at one of the unbundled installations.

In theory you are correct.  But these tools are (for now) living a 
dual life.  There are utilities and executables that we make
available in our unbundled product that are part of the packages
we deliver for the core tools, but which might not appropriate 
for putting on the user's default path.  (The 'version' command
is the poster child for this.) So there might be
things in /usr/compilers/bin that some people might want to 
run sometimes, but we wouldn't want to have symlinks for them
in /usr/bin.  This is a wart, and I don't expect many people 
will ever care enough to add /usr/compilers to their search path
for this reason.  But technically /usr/compilers/bin is not
completely an internal directory.


> 
> Danek