Re-reading everybody's answers to my queries over the last couple of weeks, it appears that a concensus has been reached about where to put everything:
Andreas Vox wrote: > As a reminder, the directory structure for MacOS apps is something like: > > <path to app>/ > LyX.app/ > Contents/ > Info.plist > MacOS/ > lyx > <other executables> > Resources > LyX/ > chkconfig.ltx > <more data> > locale/ > Fonts/ > LyX.icns > man/ Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Bennett> Currently LyX 1.4.0 uses /Users/NAME/Library/Preferences/LyX, > Bennett> but ~/Application Support/LyX is fine, too. > > And it is actually a better choice, since Preferences seems to be only > for Apple-style prefs. The above structure translates well to different LyX versions being installed at the same time since <path to app>/LyX.app and ~/Application Support/LyX presumably becomes <path to app>/LyX136.app and ~/Application Support/LyX136. Etc. Note however, that the above structure implies that the system_lyxdir, relative to the LyX executable is "../Resources/LyX" rather than "../Resources". That may be obvious to everyone else, but it wan't to me. It does seem, however, that everything in "Resources/LyX" could be moved into "Resources". Any reason why the extra directory is needed? (See the relative_system_lyxdir() function. Why not do the same as I propose for Windows?) Anyway, leaving that to one side, I think that the attached "package.tar.gz" should find everything if it were placed at <path to app>/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/package. Could I get a MacOS user to test? To build, you'll need to something like: $ tar xvzf package.tar.gz $ cd package $ g++ -g -W -Wall -I. -I$HOME/lyx/13x/boost -o package main.C \ -L$HOME/lyx/13x/build-xforms/boost/libs/regex/src/.libs -lboostregex Note that the stuff in the get_default_user_lyxdir() function is pure guess work ;-p For reference, running on a Linux machine as /home/angus/package/package: Checking whether LyX is run in place... yes system_lyxdir /home/angus/lib build_lyxdir /home/angus/lib/ user_lyxdir /home/angus/.lyx/ localedir documentdir /home/angus tmpdir /tmp homedir /home/angus and "installed" as /usr/local/bin/package: Checking whether LyX is run in place... no system_lyxdir /usr/local/share/lyx build_lyxdir user_lyxdir /home/angus/.lyx/ localedir /usr/local/share/locale/ documentdir /home/angus tmpdir /tmp homedir /home/angus Running under Windows as J:\MinSys\home\Angus\package\package.exe: Checking whether LyX is run in place... yes system_lyxdir J:/MinSYS/home/Angus/lib build_lyxdir J:/MinSYS/home/Angus/lib/ user_lyxdir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus/Application Data/lyx/ localedir documentdir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus/My Documents tmpdir C:/DOCUME~1/Angus/LOCALS~1/Temp/ homedir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus and "installed" as J:\Program Files\LyX\bin\package.exe: Checking whether LyX is run in place... no system_lyxdir j:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/ build_lyxdir user_lyxdir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus/Application Data/lyx/ localedir j:/Program Files/LyX/Resources/locale/ documentdir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus/My Documents tmpdir C:/DOCUME~1/Angus/LOCALS~1/Temp/ homedir C:/Documents and Settings/Angus -- Angus
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