The current installers are missing the code to support profilex.ijs. This was an oversight and has been corrected and will be reflected in the next version of the installers.
That is, with the next installers the system will work as the profilex.ijs documentation says. Apologies for the inconvenience. On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Mike Day <[email protected]>wrote: > I thought I'd better get started for real in v7, having continued in v6 > for the last year. > > I'm using Windows Vista, though I don't think that's particularly > at issue here. > > It still suits me to install under my own folder, d:\j701, including > the "user" folders. The advice is to modify profilex_template.ijs > and save as (in my case) "d:\j701\bin\profilex.ijs " > > I did so, with the single modification being > user=. install,'\user' > but both JHS and JGTK front-ends continued to report my > user folder as c:\Documents and Settings\mike\j701-user > > I searched for references to the string "profilex.ijs" within all files > under j701; the only instances reported (other than in profilex.ijs > and profilex_template.ijs themselves) were in some documentation, > ie "odds_and_ends.htm" and "install.htm", both in > addons\docs\help. so I decided that profilex.ijs isn't being detected > by the start-up process. > > I therefore tried inserting the relevant changes from profilex.ijs into > profile.ijs . Both front-ends now see my user folder (and temp etc) > where I want them. > > So that's fine until I reinstall when presumably I'll need to > remember to edit profile.ijs, which I had thought was deprecated. > > What have I missed? Should I be modifying the "shortcuts" that > open the J IDE and the J console for the browser? > > I've just noticed Bill Lam's remark and your reply, both on 8/1/11: > > "Bill: | profilex_template.ijs can be killed off > > Eric: I think we still want to support profilex.ijs. I > will look at this and make any necesary adjustments to > both profile.ijs and profilex_template.ijs." > > Obviously Bill knows something I don't. What is the new > mechanism he has in mind? Has the advice for installation > changed? I've been using J for years (not v7, though); it must be > a bit daunting for new users. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > On 07/01/2011 22:17, Eric Iverson wrote: > > New J701 installers are available at the web beta page. > > > > These installers remove the beta designation (hopefully not prematurely, > > just getting ready for the move to the download stable page). > > > > The JE is the final version and pacman can take care of the other stuff. > > > > We'll give it a little bit of time to settle down, perhaps build new > > installers with latest pacman library and ide/jhs, and then it will be > done. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
