Locating system ackrc on a non-global installation (ack 2)

[Rob Hoelz]

Hello everyone,

As you may know, ack 2.0 searches for several different ackrc files (global, user, and project).  The global location defaults to '/etc/ackrc' on Unix-like systems.  However, sometimes you may be operating in an environment where you don't have write access to the /etc directory (ex. a shared hosting environment).  If this is the case, how should we look for ackrc?  Andy and I discussed this for a bit, and he said it might be acceptable to look in the same directory as the ack script (if you install it to ~/bin/, ack and ackrc would be under that directory).  Andy also thinks we should get the opinion of the community; so, what do you all think we should do?

-Rob

[Nathan Arthur]

Does this problem really exist?  Specifically: are there cases where someone doesn't have access to /etc *and* they need a global (i.e. multi-user) ack config?  I'll bet it's pretty rare.

To answer your question, though, putting the file in the same dir as ack seems like a nice solution.  It might also be reasonable to just modify the script directly, although that would make upgrades annoying.

Nathan

-Rob

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[Elliot Shank]

On 5/3/12 4:06 PM, Rob Hoelz wrote:
> what do you all think we should do?

Use FindBin to look in ../etc/ackrc, i.e. if ack is ~/bin/ack, look for ~/etc/ackrc. (Actually, my ~/.ackrc is symlinked to ~/etc/ackrc, both for VCS purposes and that I just don't like all the dotfiles in ~.)