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

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 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,
All version of the tar-ball after 1748 (and including) will contain the 
help file individually. I've verified that with the changes running the 
application and clicking the help menu item, will display the opening 
page of the help.

   Luke