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

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On April 4, 2005 12:36 am, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> 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 :)
>


Of course it wont. maybe: $PREFIX/share/docs:$PREFIX/docs:#   ;)

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