Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: ROX / XaraLX

["Thomas Leonard" <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/8/06, Neil Howe <NeilH@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[ Using Zero Install to run Xara ]

> No, autopackage doesn't track the individual help files now. There are
> around 2500 files and autopackage just couldn't cope with registering
> them all in it's own db in a reasonable time during the install. So now
> we include them as an archive and autopackage just unpacks them at
> install time but doesn't itself track the individual separate files. All
> other files are installed and tracked normally by autopackage.

OK, I see. Zero Install extracts each archive to its own directory, so
we don't need to track individual files as conflicts aren't possible,
so this won't be a problem.

> > How do you locate the help files?
> > (e.g., relative to the main binary location?)
>
> Yes the program looks for the help files in ../share/xaralx/doc/en,
> relative to the executable binary location. So once this change is done
> you should find the tar archive is in the right structure.

Perfect. That shouldn't require us to do anything special at all.

Thanks Neil,


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