[Gambas-user] RE: Trouble with examples

[Rob]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 22:36, BluPhoenyx wrote:
> Are you sure this is a flaw? The standard procedure in these
> cases require the user to copy the files (or subdirectories)
> to some place in their home directory or other user writable
> directory. This also gives the added benefit of keeping the
> original source pristine.

The current behavior (that lets you open the project, but then 
produces an error when you try to change it or even build it) is 
broken, and harmful to newbies.  The behavior of making a 
root-owned examples directory world-writable, as many of us have 
done as a workaround, is an unacceptable practice from a 
security standpoint, especially if it were to be done 
automatically.

So, automatically copying the example project down to the user's 
home directory (that's what Application.Home is) prior to 
opening it seems like the least intrusive way to do this, and it 
would even work on multiuser systems.  That is what my above 
pseudocode is meant to do, and I think I can hack it into the 
Gambas IDE quickly once I have time to bury my nose in the 
source again.

Rob