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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