Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Configurability of OMF_DIR

[<las...@Su...>]

Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> One other thing which we should deal with pretty soon is configuration of
> the OMF directories.  We started with the path determined at build time as
> $prefix/share/omf under which all OMF files must be placed.  Then we added
> the OMF_DIR environment variable to allow one to specify multiple paths in
> order of preference.
> 
> What we really want is a system-wide default which can have multiple paths
> and which can be set to something reasonable by the distribution.  I think
> SuSe Linux had a problem with how they installed and configured GNOME and
> ScrollKeeper which forced one to have to make a symbolic link for your
> docs to work, given that we did not provide another way to do this.
> 
> I propose we add a configuration file in /etc which defines this
> path.  How about /etc/scrollkeeper.conf.  For now, we just have one
> variable to define:
> OMF_DIR=path1:path2:path3
> 
> What is a good default path?  Perhaps:
> OMF_DIR=/usr/share/omf:/usr/local/share/omf:/opt/omf
> 
> Am I missing some paths we should have in there?
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Dan

One more thing, with this we would have three ways of specifying OMF
file locations.

We have:

- and environment variable OMF_DIR
- the scrollkeeper.conf variable OMF_DIR
- the -o flag of scrollkeeper-update

This is probably too much. I think the environment variable should go
away and maybe the -o flag also. If -o stays then the final set of
directories should be the unification of the -o list and the OMF_DIR
list from scrollkeeper.conf.

Thoughts?

Laszlo