[Gambas-user] GAMBAS PATH

[Antonio Sánchez]

Thanks for your feedback, Tobias.
If the interpreter is the same, it is not useful for the purposes mentioned
above.
If I understand correctly, your patch gets to locate your program
components in other place. But it is not useful in a system with a diferent
version of gambas than yours.

Gambas use 3 paths: /usr/bin, /usr/share/gambas and /usr/lib/gambas

It would be great if you could create a directory in a flash drive, for
example:

.../gambas342/share/
.../gambas342/lib/
.../gambas343/bin/

...copy all files and take that particular version of GAMBAS anywhere and
with a GB_PATH=".../gambas342/" before your program, it know where look for
GAMBAS interpreter. If you exclude examples, you'd have a portable version
of gambas below 15Mb. And you have the security your program runs
everywhere and for a long time.
Now, the policy for programs made with GAMBAS is a sad "upgrade or die" and
it is a real shame you can't run programs because the version of your
distribution is too low or too high for your program.





2013/8/11 Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...>

> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Antonio S?nchez wrote:
> > Hi, Beno?t, would reconsider the possibility to run GAMBAS from a given
> > path with a environment variable or another method? It would be a great
> > help to run programs made with older versions of GAMBAS in new systems
> that
> > do not have in its repositories older versions of GAMBAS.
> >
> > It would be useful to run programs made in GAMBAS in home directory too
> > without root permissions.
> >
> > And you could play with several versions only copying necessary files in
> > the work folder.
> >
> > And another advantage is that you can be sure that the user will have
> just
> > the version your program need =:-)
> >
>
> Oh, and you may want to look at the official solution[0] Benoit supposed
> earlier this year.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [0] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30551350
>
>
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