From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T23:23:33+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE 0.5.0rc1: issues while packaging

Mauricio,

First, thanks for working on Debian packages...this gives us three 
binary distributions which is awesome and will really help in adoption 
going forward.

The writing of properties has been addressed in CVS by Laurent (thanks 
Laurent!)...it will use a $HOME dir (and USERPROFILE on win32) if a 
.freeride directory exists, otherwise operates the same as now.  The 
FreeRIDE team needs to work on this more fully in that there are other 
files that may need to be created/managed by plugins beyond .yaml 
properties files.

Sorry for forgetting the multiuser system...I have no one to blame but 
myself!

-rich

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 06:35 AM, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

>
> I've experienced the following with the Debian packages I just made;
> examination of the official RPM package shows that this issue is common
> to all packages:
>
> the core classes and the plugins try to write in read-only YAML files,
> placed somewhere in /usr/lib/freeride and/or /usr/share/freeride.
>
> This means that some things such as running the program, exiting
> cleanly, etc, won't work.
>
> A typical error message would be
> /usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `initialize': Permission
> denied -
> "/usr/share/freeride/plugins/rubyide_gui/outputpane.yaml"
> (Errno::EACCES)
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `new'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/readers.rb:28:in `save'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/properties.rb:92:in `save'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/properties.rb:54:in
> `databus_notify'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:615:in `notify'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:610:in 
> `each_value'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:610:in `notify'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/databus.rb:619:in `notify'
>          ... 24 levels...
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/core.rb:35:in `new'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freebase/core.rb:35:in `startup'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freeride.rb:53:in `startup'
>         from /usr/share/freeride/freeride.rb:66
>
> After a quick look at the code, I think I identified some of the 
> methods
> that might need modification to support per-user (in $HOME) properties;
> but I don't dare do it since (a) I'm not familiar at all w/ FreeRIDE 
> and
> (b) I don't know what to do about Windows.
>
> FreeBASE::Plugin#initialize
> FreeBASE::YAMLPropertiesReader.save
> FreeBASE::YAMLPropertiesReader.load
> FreeBASE::REXMLPropertiesReader.save
> FreeBASE::REXMLPropertiesReader.load
> FreeBASE::YAMLConfigurationReader.load_files
>
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