Re: Added get-env-var to asdf

Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> Gary King <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> If there is no dissension, I'll check this in sometime next week.
> 
> get-env-var is a bad name.
> 
> Rather more generally, I don't think that it's asdf's responsibility
> to provide everything that someone might want to use in developing
> whatever it is they're developing; asdf is not a portability library,
> and I don't see the value in turning it into one.

I understand that ASDF is not a portability library, but it seems like 
environment variables are a reasonable way to configure ASDF systems, 
permitting contextual tailoring that extends the capability of *features*.

Would you object less if the object model was extended so that ASDF can 
consult environment variables in an encapsulated way?

R

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