[Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Iverson
You raise a point I have been thinking about and your comment about 3 parts: immutable system, extensions, user makes some sense. This suggests a minor tweak to our current layout which is to add addons to the user folder. This would remove the admin requirement for using JAL for addons. But

RE: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Sherlock, Ric
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oleg Kobchenko Sent: Friday, 5 October 2007 09:32 To: Beta forum Subject: Re: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL It might be good to talk about use cases (what different locations) and features (ability to support different locations for different things: system

RE: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Sherlock, Ric
--Oleg Kobchenko wrote: It seems the use cases can be fit into cross-platform equivalencies: - immutable, admin-level locations: Program Files; Applications and .app; /usr/lib I'm very new to Linux but would it be more appropriate for the above to be /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/lib

RE: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Joey K Tuttle
The original reference was for Mac OSX which doesn't have (by default) a /usr/local/ directory. However, it is easy for a user to add one (although then one wants to augment /etc/bashrc to include it in $PATH) - in Linux, I agree jsoftware should use /usr/local/lib - joey At 11:20 +1300

Re: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Raul Miller
On 10/4/07, Sherlock, Ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the problems resolved if the user installs with J with Admin rights if they choose to do an immutable method install? There's probably an issue of which admin rights. Windows security permissions are very fine-grained, and error reporting

RE: [Jbeta] J install folders and JAL

2007-10-04 Thread Sherlock, Ric
---Raul Miller wrote: On 10/4/07, Sherlock, Ric wrote: Are the problems resolved if the user installs with J with Admin rights if they choose to do an immutable method install? There's probably an issue of which admin rights. Windows security permissions are very fine-grained, and