Hi Sebastian, Yes, uploading was one, and that was pretty difficult to pin down, but building on Windows is another. No doubt there sre others I havent even found yet? I see someone else is having trouble with their java location as well, and quite likely will still run into this problem. Dont know if anything can actually be done about it, but its worth watching out for. Cheers Robert
----- On 17/07/2012, at 7:44 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I will review, however what have been your exact issues when installing with > a space in the path name? > As far as I can remember the only issue might be uploading of documents. > > What else did you find out? > > Sebastian > > 2012/7/15 Robert Chalmers <[email protected]> > Hi George, > This has always been a bit of a pain, having to work around the spaces, but I > also run other scripted programs, Moodle, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal and a lot > of other scripts, all of which happily live under F:/My Websites/ > It's only OM I've had to build and run from C:/ based directories. Or at > least the root of a drive anyway, like F:/ > I think the only one of the others that gave me problems was Joomla, it > needed the PATH variable set to the old naming convention of C:/Program~1/ > for something before it would work. > I know its not really a major issue so long as one remembers the potential > trap is there - it had me stuck for quite a while when I first tried putting > OM together on the Windows box. > I can imagine there will be others who just quietly give up on it and say > nothing. > At the least its a trap that could be highlighted in red somewhere maybe? > "If you install on Windows you MUST have no directories or filenames with > spaces in them." > > Cheers > Robert > > > ----- > > > On 15/07/2012, at 8:50 PM, "George Kirkham" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Robert, >> >> >> >> I don’t know if spaces in directory and file names is a problem with red5 or >> with Openmeetings, I guess the developers will comment later. >> >> >> >> Due to the pain they have caused me, I very much I dislike spaces being >> used in directory and file names. I recommend to people never to use spaces >> in directories and file names, unless absolutely necessary. >> >> >> >> I had to smile when I noticed that Vista and Windows 7 changed “C:\Documents >> and Settings” to “C:\Users”, but “C:\Program Files” continues to exist with >> a space in the directory name. >> >> >> >> To overcome issues with programs that do not like spaces, I usually create a >> folder called “C:\Programs” and put my programs in this directory. >> >> >> >> However this does not answer or address the issue that you raised, so >> hopefully someone will be able to give you answer. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> George Kirkham >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Robert Chalmers [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, 15 July 2012 4:47 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Can we have fully quoted PATH strings please in the code? >> >> >> >> Fine naming conventions these days determine that spaces are allowed in path >> names. On almost every platform. Can we have this in openmeetings too please? >> >> For example - Windows is notorious for path names like "C:\Program >> Files\program xxx", or even user created paths like "F:\My Websites" >> >> >> >> If I install OM into a directory like "F:\My Websites\Domain Name\red5" ... >> it simply wont work. It breaks on the first "<blank>" between "My" and >> "Websites" >> >> >> >> I have enough trouble setting the PATH variable for old-convention software, >> that have to have the old 8.3 names, like "C:\Program~1\" name. Ok, there >> are a few in my path, but surely this is something that the OM code itself >> shouldn't have to worry about. Quoted paths have been around for years now. >> Even like "C:\Program%20Files\" do it. >> >> >> >> I really hate having to have every thing hanging off the C:\ (or F:\) >> directory. ie; C:\red5. >> >> >> >> It's not only a problem for Windows users, but it's nice to have open names >> on Unix too, which I am pretty familiar with as well. >> >> >> >> >> >> It makes for very untidy coding areas. >> >> >> >> >> >> hope we can see some joy on this. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > http://www.openmeetings.de > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > [email protected]
