[sword-devel] location of configuration information

[David White]

I think that's a very reasonable way to do it; my suggestion was made
because I thought someone said something that implied path names were
currently hard-coded or something...but the system you've already got
looks fine..

-David.

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 05:18, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> I don't think many people commenting on this subject know how sword data
> is located.  We allow 4 different ways to specify WHERE the data is
> saved.
> 
> 1) current working directory
> 2) $SWORD_PATH environment variable
> 3) /etc/sword.conf: DataPath=
> 4) $HOME/.sword/
> 
> 
> Sword data can be place anywhere on your system.  One of these 4
> mechanisms must be used to tell the engine WHERE your data lives. I
> don't think we need more mechanisms to specify WHERE.
> 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> 	-Troy.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 01:26, David White wrote:
> > That is why I would suggest using a configuration script of some kind.
> > Users should not have to be root to install Sword, and I assume Sword is
> > intended to work on a wide variety of platforms, which may have very
> > different directory hierarchy schemes. Thus it is important for Sword to
> > robustly support installation into any arbitary directory in a
> > filesystem.
> > 
> > David.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 02:56, Martin Gruner wrote:
> > > > Personally I would prefer 3 places for linux.
> > > > the main sword mods directory (/usr/share/sword) for system installed
> > > > modules (rpms and debs)
> > > > /usr/local/sword for modules installed by installmgr and untaring by root.
> > > > home directory under .sword for users.
> > > >
> > > > or at least, this is the way it has to be for debian so could it please be
> > > > supported.
> > > 
> > > The problem here is that you have diffenent locations and different 
> > > installation methods. Once somebody starts to mix them, he'll get into 
> > > trouble. Therefore I suggest ONE location, and ONE method, which should be a 
> > > good installmgr imo. Would even be easier than installing a bunch of rpms.
> > > 
> > > Martin
> > 
> 
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