http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5457
--- Comment #4 from Derik Barseghian <[email protected]> 2011-08-23 19:45:08 PDT --- I believe I've created a solution to this bug locally, but the solution is not backwards compatible in so far as 2.2's kepler.sh, Kepler.app, and kepler.exe will fail to start once 2.3 has been installed and started once. We could recommend people uninstall 2.2 so they're not tempted to try this. Switching back and forth between 2.2 and 2.3 using 2.3's Module Manager will work. Let me know if this doesn't sound acceptable to you. Clearly it's not ideal. The bug here is to do with keeping modules and files used by the build system to start kepler in two places, the Kepler application folder of course, and KeplerData/kepler.modules/. The issue is that the files in KeplerData/kepler.modules are not overwritten during a new install, or when switching between versions, and so start up can fail when incompatible KeplerData/kepler.modules/ files exist. Another solution is to simply not include use.keplerdata in the installers, but this takes away our ability to let users without write permission to the application area download and use different modules. Personally I don't think we should be storing the application in 2 places, it complicates things and uses extra space. I believe the original intent of using KeplerData/kepler.modules for module downloads was to allow users to download different modules and change suites when they don't have write access to the application area. However I think we should probably just behave like other apps. If a user wants to download add-ons, they should have to get admin access. Or the app should just be entirely in their own space from install. But this may have to wait for 2.4. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kepler-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/mailman/listinfo/kepler-dev
