[Bug 211626] Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world

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Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626





------- Additional Comments From mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp  2006-10-21 13:25 EST -------
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> 
> > profile files and desktop files are useless for tideEditor because:
> > * HFILE_PATH should be under wher user has write access (For example,
> >   HFILE_PATH=/usr/share/xtide/harminocs-????.tcd tideEditor
> >   immediately exits).
> > * tideEditor surely requires HFILE_PATH environ. With no HFILE_PATH
> >   environ, this cannot be launched.
> 
> Hrm. A wrapper which sets HFILE_PATH to the argument would be 
> better. And even better a file choser for tideEditor when no
> HFILE_PATH and no arg is set.

copy tcd file to /tmp when invoked (with no arg specified)? 
Some wrapper script to change ENV to arg as you said is preferable anyway.

Well, is there a way to pass a argument (in general) to binary
when called by desktop files (icon in panel)?

>  
> 
> > Well, when I directly use release number, i.e.
> > tcd-utils: 1.3.7-1  2  3  4  5 ...
> > xtide versioning become
> > 2.9-dev 0.1.dev   0.2.dev..  0.3.dev.. 0.4.dev.. 
> > (then formal release) 5 (suddenly jump)
> 
> Why 5? Why not 1? The version/release of tcd-utils is not linked
> in a very precise way to xtide verson/release? I even hope that
> some day they are split.

Well, xtide<->tcd-utils versioning splitting is allowed, there is
no problem.

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