Re: :action depend for D

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bram Moolenaar" <[email protected]>
>
> There is also a problem for people that don't have an internet
> connection.  They would not get past this :assertpkg.  Adding {optional}
> is possible, but then dependency checking doesn't work...  Is giving a
> warning sufficient?  Otherwise, the file could be included in the
> distribution somehow.

Well, the license allows it :) It is about 10k, but for aap's purposes it
don't need to be that large. Maybe a reduced version could be
included in case there is no connection and it isn't present othervise?

> > > I have uploaded this, thus you can try it out with "aap --install
> > > depchkd".
> >
> > Ok, the fetching and installing works as a charm. The problem though
> > with it being installed in bindir, is that :sys don't find at since that
dir
> > isn't in PATH. :assertpkg do, though. Some possible solutions.
> >
> > 1. Have the boot.aap install it somewhere that we *knows* is in PATH.
> >    (I don't like this solution).
> >
> > 2. Instruct the user to add bindir to PATH.
> >    (Not automatic enough?)
> >
> > 3. Add bindir to PATH automatically at some time.
> >    (Shell (atleast cmd.exe) must be restarted before it works)
> >
> > 4. Let :sys check bindir too.
> >     (A possibly ugly solution?)
> >
> > 5. Let the user provide a directory during install.
> >     (It is then up to the user to make sure the dir is in PATH)
>
> The Aap way of doing this is to use:
>
> :progsearch DDEPCHECK ddepcheck
>
> And then use ":sys $DDEPCHECK ..."

Ah, of course. And this works.

Lars Ivar Igesund



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