[sword-devel] New website - installation instructions

[David Haslam]

Everyone,

Please consider the situations for shared machines, such as a Windows PC
shared in a home where one of the family is a believer and another isn't. 
e.g. Christian married (prior to his/her conversion) to a non-Christian.

In this case having the application modules in shared directories could be a
[further] potential cause of friction.  Better that the believer in the
household restricts modules and the application shortcuts to their
%userprofile%.

We should follow Windows best practice for the installation location
methodology.

--David


Chris Morgan-10 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Ben Morgan <benpmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> BPBible allows the user to install any of the formats (raw, windows or
>> mac)
>> by dragging onto the application or selecting them in a file picker. It
>> currently has a configurable list of paths - by default this just
>> includes
>> the resources subdirectory of the BPBible installation directory.
>>
> 
> To fill out about BPBible's current default module directories, the
> Windows
> installer searches for BibleCS and puts it into the list; this way it's
> more
> compatible with it :-)
> 
> To see the code as it currently is, look
> here<http://code.google.com/p/bpbible/source/browse/trunk/installer/bpbible.iss.template?r=424#65>at
> lines 65-81.  First, it looks in the registry at
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\sword.exe.  This is put there by BibleCS when it runs.  If it finds
> it, then that is one of its paths.
> Also, it adds {app}\resources as a path, where {app} is the install path
> specified by the user; by default then then this'll usually be C:\Program
> Files\BPBible\resources.
> 
> End result: the default resource paths for BPBible give no writeable paths
> to Vista.  Uh oh.  Especially because of this, I think that
> $ALLUSERSPROFILE\Sword and/or $PUBLIC\Sword sounds a good idea.  Another
> opinion from me: Why would $APPDATA be preferred over $ALLUSERPROFILE?
> Normally I would expect all users to want to have about the same set of
> modules; however, when I think about it, I'm also not sure whether users
> would want other users to be able to delete their modules... not that any
> of
> this really matters much to me - all I really do for BPBible is the
> installer (switching to a decent NSIS based one soon) and BPBible Portable
> :-)
> Also, in my experience, $SWORD_PATH is not normally set, whereas
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\sword.exe is.  Draw out from that what you will ;-)
> 
> 
> God bless,
> 
> Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> I don't need a quote in my signature.
> 
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