Re: [Installbase-devel] InstallBase 1.0a3 and recursive file groups

[Michael S. <ms...@cb...>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Damon Courtney wrote:

>     The recent code in CVS now has the ability to prompt for directories
> when adding new file groups.  Along with a bunch of other stuff too. 0-]

Hey, that's handy. A few suggestions/questions:

What does "Use this directory explicitly" do?

When adding a directory tree to a group with "Prompt for base directory"
turned on, the original group's installation base dir doesn't change as it
probably should. (I add the contents of the lin-sun-jvm-140 directory to
the "JVM Files" group; "bin", "lib", "lib/server", etc. groups are created
with an installation root of <InstallDir>/jvm, but the top-level files in
"JVM Files" would still go into <InstallDir> instead of <InstallDir>/jvm,
unless I remember to change the install directory.)

It would save time checking off file groups in the Components tab if the
entire directory structure from "Add directory" went into one file group.
The Windows JRE has 25 directories and the Linux one has 64 - that's a lot
of clicking :)

Along the same lines, it'd be nice to be able to shift-highlight multiple
groups in the Components tab and select/deselect them.

Also, in order to get a pop-up menu in most list contexts, you need to
select (left mouse button) then popup (right mouse button). It'd be nice
if the right mouse click could do a select & popup.

What does shortcut type (link/application) in the GNOME & KDE shortcut
platform target dialog box mean? I tried leaving it blank, and no shortcut
got created. I'll have to try again with one or the other when I get the
chance.

Copy & paste doesn't work in the Windows shortcut input fields. Seems to
in the GNOME & KDE ones, though. I only noticed this because I have a long
set of command line arguments to pass in each shortcut.

Anyway, thanks again - InstallBase rocks.

Mike