App installation clobbers `LOAD_PATH`

[apozharski]

Hello,

this issue is related to JuliaLang/JuliaC.jl#13. Currently it seems the default shim created sets the JULIA_LOAD_PATH to only the app environment instead of the environment along with the default. In some cases (in particular for JuliaC.jl) this causes some headaches as packages may not be found if the app calls the julia executable recursively passing through the environment variables.

This could be "solved" by appending :$JULIA_LOAD_PATH by default, though perhaps there is a reason for this behavior I am missing.

Best,
Anton

[JeffBezanson]

I think if an app runs julia recursively it has to be responsible for setting an appropriate path and environment. But, appending to the load path instead of overwriting it might be ok, I'll let others weigh in on that.

[KristofferC]

The idea was that an app should be kind of an isolated thing and not mess about with global stuff like the default environment etc.

[KristofferC]

I think staying conservative here is the way to go (unless people give more good reasons why not). The app itself can of course to whatever load path changes it wants.