Re: [rox-users] ROX-Filer on Cygwin

[Thomas L. <ta...@gm...>]

2008/7/26 Stephen Watson <st...@ke...>:
> "Thomas Leonard" <ta...@gm...> wrote:
>> 2008/7/25 Full Mitten <ful...@ly...>:
[...]
>> > I don't see an executable 'rox'. Has this changed (I've been out of the
>> > loop for a while)? ROX-Filer runs if I execute 'AppRun'.
>>
>> Thanks, that's really useful!
>>
>> The rox executable isn't installed anymore. The idea is that the
>> packaging system handles that (after all, none of the other ROX apps
>> has an install script). I'll have to think about how best to support
>> that on Windows...
>
> It's also needed when installing from source.  I've put in a menu option
> from the New menu, but it might make more sense to put it in the Options.

That's... really ugly ;-)

There must be a clean way of doing this. i.e. an install method that
will work with all applications, not just ROX-Filer.

Shouldn't it add something to the Start menu on Windows too?

0alias doesn't work, unfortunately, as some code in Zero Install uses
os.fork(), which Python on Windows doesn't seem to support. I should
change them into calls to subprocess or threading sometime (the GIT
version is better but there are still a cases remaining).

Is there a command in Windows to put something in %PATH%? How do
things normally install? Whenever I've tried using Windows, installing
things always required fiddling about with Start -> Control panel ->
System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Path.

Here are my notes from last time I tried it:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2029407&group_id=76468&atid=547194


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