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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:42:14 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.
I'm only willing to abandon environment variables if you're willing to
go the distance and really try to work out a standard that we all can
use. I, like Lars, was quite disappointed when you got impatient and
cut short the previous discussion thread. I thought we were still
making good progress at the time. Since you're currently an LSC
member, I'd think you could at least try to be more patient with the
rest of us as we work this out. Please rejoin that thread and
comment on the remaining issues:
1. <LDRAWDIR>\p or <LDRAWDIR>p
2. <HIDE> instead of HIDE
3. Allowing other tags like <PARTS> and ignoring unrecognized ones.
Ok now as Travis pointed out, we still need to find the LDRAWDIR
directory. We also need environment variables to find the other
places ldraw.ini (or .ldrawrc) could reside; the WINDIR, USERPROFILE,
and HOME directories. So we can't completely abandon environment
variables. However there are there are reasons like java and macos9
why we might want to limit their use.
> 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.
Java has other problems, but yes, you need a helper script or program
to pass environment variables to the current version of java. However
there is a bit of a holy war about this in the java bug list so things
may change again.
> Another 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.
Yes, I alluded to this in my previous comment about CACLS and
Windows administrators.
> - 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 :-)
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> So my suggestion is to have one ini file in the ldraw directory
> itself, and another one optionally in the users home directory.
I think we need to allow for an ldraw.ini in the Windows directory
for backwards compatibliity with old programs and older single user
Windows systems, but it should be the last place searched. Ie.
search HOME, LDRAWDIR, and then Windows. Also, you may want to do
a different search for the LDRAWDIR. First look in the environment,
then the HOME directory, then the WINDOWS directory. On unix/MacOsX
could we substitute /etc for the Windows directory?
Andrew, it'd be nice if an active Mac developer spoke up on this.
Finally, if we start putting ldraw.ini in the LDRAWDIR, how do we
decide what belongs in ldraw.ini and ldconfig.ldr? For instance if we
go with the <LDRAWDIR>p form (without the slash character), the
default search paths are platform independent and could conceivably be
worked into the ldconfig.ldr file.
Don
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