Open mrindar opened 7 years ago
How would this work? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for, simply defining CORAL_HOME won't make Windows search there for the executables.
It's a good idea for coralslaveprovider to use such an environment variable to locate coralslave.exe
, however!
I probably had a brain fart, because I realize now that this won't work as I had intended, #FeelsBadMan.
The main reason for why I had this idea is that I'm currently working on a MATLAB application which uses coral, and in order to use coral I need the path to its bin folder. This can be a pain sometimes so it would be nice to just have a CORAL_HOME environment variable, but since coral doesn't have an installer which can create this environment variable I suppose it's not that great of an idea anyway. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to add functionality that uses a CORAL_HOME environment variable if it exists though.
Should we include a
CORAL_HOME
environment variable on windows which points to thebin
folder of a coral distribution? This way we can usecoralslaveprovider
andcoralmaster
on the command line from anywhere without the full path, and we don't have to change thePATH
environment variable which can be a mess to maintain.