[Gambas-user] IDE Error

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 08/03/2023 à 12:42, BB a écrit :
> 
> On 8/3/23 3:44 am, T Lee Davidson wrote:
>> That is correct. I believe the content of user-dirs.dirs and 
>> user-dirs.locale are set by the specific distro, not Gambas. 
> 
> To be possibly pedantic its more of a problem with the version of the 
> XDG utilities. This was a consistent problem that I have had over the 
> years with different distros.
> 
> To put it simply, the XDG scripts are not a *standard* and the distro 
> installed version is one that is convenient to the distro maintainers, 
> for their purposes. For example, for years the Ubuntu version was a 
> complete hack and generally unusable anywhere else. Remember, they are 
> just shell scripts.
> 
> These days I just install the latest "Portland" version which 99% of the 
> time works ootb.

What you say is right, but it is not related to the problem described in 
this thread, that I fixed in the last commit.

> 
> 
> However, there is a bug! Gambas tries to use an internal set of the 
> utilities. That doesn't work.

They are internal in Gambas because of the exact problem you describe: 
the ones installed on the system are often out of date. It's just that I 
must update them more frequently.

Moreover, the XDG shell scripts are currently slowly replaced by the 
DBus XDG portal we were talking about in another thread. The advantage 
of shell scripts is that they do not depend on DBus.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.