[Gambas-user] GAMBAS PATH

[Antonio Sánchez]

I'm going to try your patch. I want to know what happens if you don't have
installed gambas in the system and you use only your patched version in
other places.



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

> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Antonio S?nchez wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> If you apply that patch and export GAMBAS_ROOT=.../gambas342/, your gbx3
> will not use /usr but .../gambas342 instead to search for its stuff (most
> of
> its stuff). I think this is what you wanted, no?
>
> As I said, I don't think that you can create a well-behaving portable
> Gambas
> distribution as there are some hardcoded uses of the /usr prefix in the
> source code of at least the IDE. These portions will likely fail when you
> execute your portable Gambas in an environment where no normal Gambas is
> installed.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
>
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