On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On May 10, 2011, at 6:20 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2011-05-09 15:48, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2011, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
given that both GF and Gem are to add their paths automatically on
startup, the left column if the help-browser might have >500
help-patches and several dozens of directories.
speaking of which, do you have a solution for the following case ? When
people uninstall and reinstall the library with a different path, and
then they have to know that they're supposed to remove any path items
that have been added automatically, because they do happen to be saved
if you edit the paths from the Path dialogue.
run a script that checks the user's .pdsettings for potential older
installations of GF and suggest to remove them.
Another idea is to discourage the use of the preferences for saving paths and
startup libraries. Since gridflow configure its self when its loaded, people
can use [import gridflow]/[declare -lib gridflow] in the patch.
But there's a difference between discouraging the use and removing the
use.
When you do [import gridflow], gridflow will try adding itself to the
path. As long as the path gets saved into the settings-file, it may
contain gridflow folders for versions of gridflow that are not in use.
I might get gridflow to stop adding things to the path in the future, just
to avoid such problems in the future. It's a lot better than having
gridflow's startup trying to see whether anything has to be removed from
path... and doing it correctly.
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