Shachar Shemesh said: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>Comments? >> >> > What's wrong with the way it's done by everybody else? > > Have hardcoded paths (determined at configure time), and allow override > using a config file. Have a command line option for saying where the > config file should be. > > For Windows, replace config file with "Registry". That is usually > hardcoded for (depending on whether you want it changeable per-user) > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\<company name>\<product name> (replace HKLM > with HKEY_LOCAL_USER if you want per-user config). >
IMNSHO this would not buy anything but would provide you with an extra capacity for shooting yourself in the foot. Using what we have discussed up to now this would be completely unnecessary - you could just move the installation and it would work (modulo any necessary changes in LD_LIBRARY_PATH ,PATH etc). Perhaps you have not followed the discussion about this issue over the last months, but a good part of it revolved around avoiding the very dependencies you are suggesting. "What everybody else does" doesn't carry much weight on its own with me. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])