[Aglets-users] Environment variables necessary?

[Thomas H. <Tho...@es...>]

Hi,

I'm editing the User's Manual a little bit and I was wondering about the 
necessity of a certain procedure at the installation of the binary package.

I have read in different places the advice to set certain variables like 
AGLETS_HOME (User's Manual), AGLETS_PATH (User's Manual), JDK_HOME (in 
bin/agletsd).

I doubt the necessity of this and believe that the requirement is obsolete. It 
seems to me that AGLETS_PATH is not used anywhere. As for the manual 
configuration of AGLETS_HOME and JDK_HOME, that seems superseded by ant's 
automatic initialization when generating the launcher scripts. In fact, I 
have tried unsetting all those variables and I was still able to generate the 
scripts with ant and run Tahiti.

What is your experience? In what situations was it necessary to set those 
variables when installing or using Aglets 2.0.2?

Thanks for any replies.
Thomas.
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