[AG-DEV] Suggestion
Salim Haniff
Salim.Haniff at uta.fi
Thu May 31 02:35:58 CDT 2012
Hi Andrew,
This sounds like the best approach. We could have the script
determine if the user has a command line argument/interactive input
specifying the location of the AGTk python scripts. If no arguments
are supplied by the user then we use Tim's approach in the new
AGpatch.py . This should help the Windows users.
An alternative approach would be to create a document telling users
specifically where to edit the files using some editor like notepad.
While it is extremely laborious it should get the job done.
Chris, I have a VM of Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I could test out the
patch package if you want. Would you guys happen to have a fedora
version available as well?
Best,
Salim
Quoting James S Perrin <james.s.perrin at manchester.ac.uk>:
> Hi Tim, Salim,
>
> I quickly ran Tim's script on my Windows XP 32 machine using python
> 2.4 (as installed by AGTK-3).
>
> 1. Added code for WindowsXP*Updaters
> 2. needed a 'self.' in front of the root_path_list in the Windows*AGUpdaters.
>
> As there is only one AGtk-3 package for all windows machine the
> location will either be:
>
> C:\Program Files\AGTk-3 on 32bit or
> C:\Program Files (x86)\AGTk-3 on 64bit
>
> So XP, Vista and 7 can be combined if you wish.
Quoting Andrew Danson <Andrew.Danson at newcastle.edu.au>:
> Hi Salim and Tim,
>
> May I make a suggestion with the script?
>
> It seems from the feedback on the mail list that there is a lot of
> variation between the different operating systems and sometimes even
> between different versions ofthe same OS. Now rather than having to
> script every possible alternative, perhaps it would be best to make
> a sensible guess for each system as the default, and allow users of
> the script to specify the path either interactively (preferably) or
> on the command line when it fails.
>
> Cheers
> Andrew
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Salim Haniff (salim.haniff at uta.fi)
School of Information Sciences
33014 University of Tampere, Finland
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