:assertpkg with path?

"Lars Ivar Igesund" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.devel
Message-ID <047801c37f64$873ee8d0$0200000a@mesmer>
Hi again!

I tried to install agide using aap --install. The install
itself went fine, the only problem was finding the 
additional packages like gvim and mingw. I'm not
always a fan of putting everything in the path. gvim
is no problem in that respect, but as I have both
mingw and cygwin installed, I never have more than
one of them in the path. At the moment, that is not
mingw and thus aap --install didn't find it.

I looked at the assert_pkg function and it was easy
to let the user add a path to search. This isn't useful
until agide can find this path at runtime, though.
Should assertpkg have the possibility to return the
path provided by the user so that it can be stored in
a config file?

Of course this wouldn't help with mingw as the agide
bootstrap recipe don't use assertpkg but progsearch
and some other stuff. 

Maybe a :progpath command would be of use?

:progpath varname progname...

which lets the user supply a path if the program is 
not found in $PATH and put in the variable varname.

When the programpaths are ready, it's up to the
bootstrap recipe to put it into the relevant config file.

(BTW; It seems like it takes 12 hours + before I
receive my own messages to the list. Long live
SourceForge!)

Lars Ivar Igesund
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