Bug in OpenG Package Manager

[Rolf K. <rol...@ci...>]

When trying to test my newly created packages I did use the
File->Install Single Package
menu option in the OpenG Commander. I got consistently an error 5008 so
I went looking
and found a problem within the function called to do this operation.

In OGPM Add Package to Cache.vi the function OGPM Add Package File to
Cache.vi is called.
This function MOVES the package from the original location into the
cache directory. Right
after that the function OGPM Get Package Name.vi function is called with
the original package
file path to retrieve the package name, BUT the package has been already
moved into the
the cache and is therefore not available anymore.

Possible solutions might be:

1) Use a COPY in the OGPM Add Package File to Cache.vi instead of MOVE.
Is it really desirable
to remove the original package from the disk? I would think this a
little bit strange (I was rather surprised that the original package
disappeared after I had selected it!)

2) Retrieve the package name from the now moved package in the cache
instead of the original one

And last but not least

3) The whole package name was just read in OGPM Add Package File to
Cache.vi to determine the name of the target file in the cache to only
be retrieved again as the next step after this function. Adding an
output cluster to OGPM Add Package File to Cache.vi containing the
package name parameters would be much more logical, more efficient and
also add no complexity to the diagram of this VI at all.

Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Nederland BV
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