Re: setting environment variables

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Stas Bekman wrote:

> Randy Kobes wrote:
> [...]
> > So the behaviour of SetEnv changed from Apache-1 to
> > Apache-2, as far as Win32 case goes, while PerlSetEnv
> > maintained the same behaviour from mp1 to mp2.
> >
> > I suppose one could argue that we should change
> > PerlSetEnv under mp2 to lower-case things, so as
> > to be consistent with SetEnv?
>
> I think yes. I'm sure you have a patch already :)

Actually, things are a bit more complicated on mp2 than I
thought ... The example I gave earlier had 2
SetEnv/PerlSetEnv directives, differing in case, which is a
bit artificial. If there's just one such directive, then
both SetEnv/PerlSetEnv seem to behave normally (taking into
account that, on Windows, $ENV{FOO} and $ENV{foo} are the
same). However, there does seen to be a problem (with
SetEnv) when it's all lower-case
   SetEnv foo bar
in that $ENV{foo} doesn't seem to get set (irrespective of
the case of "foo". There's still a difference between
PerlSetEnv and SetEnv, but I don't see the pattern yet;
I'll keep looking.

        -- 
        best regards,
randy