Fbdo - announcing a new tool

[Steve Cooper]

Resending in case the list filtered it out because it was from my
Gmail account, rather than the account known at xfce.org.  I wish
Gmail would use smarter defaults for the From address when sending  in
response to forwarded mail. :)  Sorry if it's a dup.

> Is it possible to install it without being root?
>
> I tried:
>
>  $ python setup.py install --home=~
>
> That worked after removing some bash completion stuff, but fbdo then
> failed to build with:
>
> ERROR:  Unknown CMDO attribute "Integer"
>
> Integer is in this file: ~/lib/cmdo/cmdo.d/core.cmdocore

Thanks for the details.  The issue is that it's currently a bit
hard-coded for how it searches for cmdo.d and fbdo.d directories
containing the .cmdo module files.  I didn't think of handling ~ as a
possible installation target, just /usr, /usr/local, etc.  It's an
oversight.  The install should also write some sort of configuration
file specifying additional search path directories.  Not sure where
this would go when installed to the home directory, ~/etc, ~/.config,
...?

For now, if you still want to play with it, you can symlink from
~/lib/cmdo/cmdo.d to ~/.cmdo/cmdo.d and from ~/lib/fbdo/fbdo.d to
~/.fbdo/fbdo.d.

Thanks for being patient with a first public release - and thanks for
Rox Filer! :)

On 7/2/07, Steve Cooper <coops222 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to install it without being root?
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> >  $ python setup.py install --home=~
> >
> > That worked after removing some bash completion stuff, but fbdo then
> > failed to build with:
> >
> > ERROR:  Unknown CMDO attribute "Integer"
> >
> > Integer is in this file: ~/lib/cmdo/cmdo.d/core.cmdocore
>
> Thanks for the details.  The issue is that it's currently a bit
> hard-coded for how it searches for cmdo.d and fbdo.d directories
> containing the .cmdo module files.  I didn't think of handling ~ as a
> possible installation target, just /usr, /usr/local, etc.  It's an
> oversight.  The install should also write some sort of configuration
> file specifying additional search path directories.  Not sure where
> this would go when installed to the home directory, ~/etc, ~/.config,
> ...?
>
> For now, if you still want to play with it, you can symlink from
> ~/lib/cmdo/cmdo.d to ~/.cmdo/cmdo.d and from ~/lib/fbdo/fbdo.d to
> ~/.fbdo/fbdo.d.
>
> Thanks for being patient with a first public release - and thanks for
> Rox Filer! :)
>
> Steve
>


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Steve Cooper
Vancouver, WA