[367] in athena10
Re: Adding software "to the release"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Aug 4 20:01:18 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:57:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, athena10@MIT.EDU
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I'm trying to think if there are any scripts or documentation which assume
> that "acroread" is in the default PATH and that it does something useful. I
> want to say there are, but I can't think of any beyond Firefox and the OLC
> stock answers, the former will become moot and the latter is fixable. This
> feels like a large change, even though it's almost certainly not. I wonder
> if "acroread" shouldn't stick around as an attachandrun script, but that
> feels like a hack and will interact poorly with people who do install
> Acrobat.
One option is to add our own command-not-found hook that runs whichlocker,
or an official variant that's in the release, as opposed to in a locker
itself. Just like Ubuntu does
geofft@water-buffalo:~$ zwrite
The program 'zwrite' is currently not installed. You can install it by
typing:
sudo apt-get install zephyr-clients
-bash: zwrite: command not found
(on a non-Debathena machine), we can have something that does, e.g.,
athena$ acroread
The program 'acroread' is available in the 'acro' locker. You can add the
locker by typing
add acro
-bash: acroread: command not found
athena$
This won't help shell scripts the way attachandrun will, but I suspect
that's not important for programs like acroread, matlab, or other common
locker software. It will also greatly improve discoverability of the
Athena locker system in general.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
