Re: [AD] grabber.txt moved => bug

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 3, 2005 02:41 pm, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:08 +0200, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > Any thoughts on this? As far as I can see, the grabber can't actually
> > make any assumptions about where to find grabber.txt. Personally, I
> > certainly don't run it from a location where it will find
> > ../docs/txt/grabber.txt... I think we should restore the old behavior in
> > the sense that grabber.txt is also copied to the tools directory. We can
> > then tell the user that s/he has to place the grabber.txt file in the
> > same directory as the executable if s/he attempts to move it (although we
> > should not put it
> > in /usr/local/bin ourselves). It still seems the savest option to me,
> > except for making a config variable that the grabber can check to find
> > grabber.txt (that may be a good idea anyway).
> > Thoughts?
>
> What about a config entry "[grabber]docs_path"? After all, we already
> have a section [grabber], so why not put it to some good use. The
> default value for it would then be "../docs/txt" - so for new users
> running it the first time out of the tools directory, it would work, on
> all platforms. Then under unix, where we install the executable,
> distributions could modify the standard path to e.g.
> "/usr/share/allegro-tools", or I think some distribution actually keep a
> structure with one-dir-per-app, so they would even keep the default
> path, as would windows users.
>

I was thinking something along the lines of $PREFIX/share/docs:$PREFIX/docs

That should cover all bases :)

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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