Eric's reply (just received) explains what happened. It looks as if we should persevere with profilex.ijs after all.
Spasibo Mike On 09/01/2011 16:30, bill lam wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
