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From: Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:42:07 +0100
Subject: Re: Project-wide variable...
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Guillaume Martel-Genest
<guillaumemg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 23, 9:41=A0am, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to declare a project-wide variable and use that in all
>> downstream modules?
>>
> What about using an environment variable?

Yes, that's fine, but only if the data is suitable for it.