I put customization in profile.ijs just as what you did. Either profile.ijs has to be restored to support profilex.ijs; or the template profilex is redundant. I cannot remember who purposed to kill profilex in the first place.
Вск, 09 Янв 2011, Mike Day писал(а): > 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 -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
