[Alexandria-list] DevEnv setup

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:06 -0400
"Joseph Method" <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> My work pattern is edit a file in the source tree, sudo rake install,
> run alexandria. If we want to make alexandria runnable from the source
> tree, we have to make the require statements always use relative
> lookup. This is:
> 

Actually, for testing modifications the Ruby  code itself, I do the
following from the alexandria source directory:
  RUBYLIB=$PWD/lib  ruby  bin/alexandria
This runs the local copy of the start script, and starts looking for
the Alexandria code libraries in the local lib directory. This is very
useful for most local changes in code.

However, as mentioned above, this won't pick up local modifications to
the various resources (such as icons, images, translations and Glade
XML) but I imagine that changing the DATA_DIR in the generated config.rb
might be the first step in figuring out a way around that (it's not
that easy though, as 'rake install' actually collates a bunch of files
from all over the source directory and places them correctly).

   -   C.
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