Hmm, just $PATH, interesting. Will try. > my machine as a .dmg file that mounts and then you drag > the installation package to where you want it to live.
The icon you drag is not an installation package. It's an application bundle, folder of (and with) the app itself and Info.plist that rebuilds registry each time you drag it. e.g. J Launcher in http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Auto_Start An installation package is a different thing, has extension .pkg (or so) and it runs a real explicit installation process when double-clicked. ----- Original Message ---- From: Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General forum <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:52:07 PM Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Installation Instructions for J on Mac At 13:32 -0800 2006/11/28, Oleg Kobchenko wrote: >As far as I recall, that only step that requires >sudo, i.e. moving the library to /usr/lib, can >be eliminated if the startup scripts (jw, etc.) >made use of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. > >.dmg is typically not an installation package, but >a simple self-mountable archive, which has a >drag and drop installable bundle, without requirement >for any standard application folder, e.g. could be >/Tools or /Util. This brings a question of >separation of J core stuff from user stuff, which may >or may not be a good thing. > Yes, setting paths avoids the need for SU status, I take advantage of that in some Linux systems that I have access too, but don't have authority to add anything to /usr/lib - modifying my own $PATH variables works nicely. In my experience, most installation packages arrive on my machine as a .dmg file that mounts and then you drag the installation package to where you want it to live. (or something not much more complex). I agree completely with your point (separation of J core ...) being problematic. Whatever evolves, I would prefer to keep things in the Unix-like way that I have on my OS X (where j601 lives in /usr/local/lib) for ease of working between Mac and Unix/Linux. - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
