Re: feature discussion?

[R.K. O. Ph.D. <rk...@ow...>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Harlan Stenn wrote:

> How about a "module exists [modulefile ...]" command that prints a 1 or 0
> based on whether or not the corresponding modulefile exists?
> 

This looks as though you're describing something for the command line.
In that case it should have an exit code of 0 (success) or 1 (not found)
which can be used in shell scripts.
However, if it's invoked through a modulefile, then it should return
0 or 1 for Tcl parsing.
An intriguing idea.  It may require a fair amount of coding though.

> What about imposing "smarter" ordering on the output of "module avail" so
> that 1.10 comes after 1.9 instead of between 1.1 and 1.2?
> 
> H
> 
modules has always used simple ``directory'' ordering, and to institute
something like this could require some significant changes.

Anyways, your suggestions seem like definite improvements and
I've added your suggestions to the TODO file ... however, that
doesn't guarantee that they will happen immediately though.  However,
if someone gets ambitious and sends in a code patch, that definitely
helps things along.

	R.K.

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