Re: [JPP-Devel] Workbench Properties

[Sunburned S. <sun...@gm...>]

Andreas wrote: "As long as there will be no centralized solution which
everyone is
forced to use, I'll be happy as well."

Yup. This should definitely be implemented as a plug-in or set of plug-ins.

Here is one more thought:

You could have the plug-in scan the users directory on the host
operating system and delete or add folders in the lib/ext/users folder
according to the contents. The user could simply indicate the type of
host operating system when the plug-in was installed.

Still, I bet a MS windows specific plug-in would reach 90% of our
users, a Linux specific plug-in 8%, and a Mac specific plug-in the
other 2%.

The Sunburned Surveyor

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Andreas Schmitz <sc...@la...> wrote:
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Andreas wrote: "sure, but my point is that it's duplicated
>> functionality. When a user is
>> updated/added/deleted in the system, do you take care to do the same for the
>> OpenJUMP-users?"
>>
>> Alas my friend! I think we have identified an unresolvable trade-off.
>>
>> On the one hand, if we tap into the operating system's framework for
>> managing users we will likely loose are ability to be truly
>> cross-platform.
>>
>> On the other hand, if we design an independent (and cross-platform)
>> solution to user management just for OpenJUMP we loose the
>> synchronization with the operating systems users.
>
> yes, that pretty much nails it ;-)
>
>> I'm not sure if there is a solution that addresses both of these
>> issues, nor am I sure which of the techniques described above is the
>> one to pursue. There may not be one technique that is "better" than
>> the other.
>>
>> However, if you distribute a flavor of OpenJUMP for just one operating
>> system, you might implement a solution that doesn't need to be
>> cross-platform. I think this would be fairly easy to do with a plug-in
>> or two.
>
> Agreed. As long as there will be no centralized solution which everyone is
> forced to use, I'll be happy as well.
>
> Best regards, Andreas
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