On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
>>    LYXSYSDIRS = ["/usr/share/lyx", "/usr/local/share/lyx",
>> "/opt/share/lyx"]
>>
> This will be hard to get right, since you can install LyX anywhere.
>
>>    LYXBASEDIR = [".lyx" + version_suffix]
>>
> This again will be hard to get right. (For trunk, I use
> ~/dev/lyxdirs/lyxsvn/.) Perhaps the script should take optional arguments
> for these. (Argument processing is done with getopt.)

Yes, there must be a better way.  For instance, I noticed that an
executed command inherits its environment from LyX, e.g. "PATH
prefix."  Why not create environment variables for all the relevant
paths?

-Ben

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