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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:15:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> I just start a new sub-thread to discuss two very important points where I
> thought over two nights now:
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> The location of the ini file and environment variables!
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> I would not recommend to go with both solutions, because its source for
> possible errors and confusion for the user. The thing is what would be the
> first thing to consider for a software - what if environment variables and
> ini files contain path definitions but different ones? I would prefere to go
> with the ini file variant only - even if some of you have implemented this
> strategy already - this should not be a point, also I have to discard my
> current implementation on this topic.
> Also I have something in mind - correct if I'm wrong - but Java does not
> support this environment varables very well - and as we mentioned earlier
> they are very dependend on the operating system.
I agree. I like the ini file solution over the environmet varible
> An other thing regards the location of the ini file. In past weeks I got
> several questions regarding the central installation of LDraw and MLCad,
> where universities and schools are trying to install everything on a server,
> read-only for the user. Users should either not have the possiblity to
> change configs ore should be restricted somehow.
> - Now having a ini file in the windows directory would not support this
> approach, and personaly I'm not a favorite of spamming the windows system
> directories with private files (even if some windows variants do that on
> theire own :-)
> So my suggestion is to have one ini file in the ldraw directory itself, and
> another one optionally in the users home directory.
I agree that putting the ldraw.ini the LDRAW dir would make much more sense (why
it wasn't in the first place is puzzling) but the problem is that the programs
the use it expect it in the Windows directory. If we move it then all these
programs (some of which are not actively developed any more) would have to be
changed.
-Orion
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| (...) Well, the ldraw directory itself can be specified in ldraw.ini. And while I agree that filling up the Windows directory is generally a bad thing, you can't have the file be in the LDraw directory if it is the file that specifies where to find (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I just start a new sub-thread to discuss two very important points where I thought over two nights now: The location of the ini file and environment variables! I would not recommend to go with both solutions, because its source for possible errors (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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