Re: How change $AddOnsDirectory
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- Subject: [mg41230] Re: [mg41128] How change $AddOnsDirectory
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:39:09 -0400 (EDT)
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You can install these into $AddOnsDirectory or $UserAddOnsDirectory by modifying the target install path when running the application pack installers. We suggest doing this if you want to use applications from multiple versions of Mathematica (although all of the old behaviors with $TopDirectory/AddOns/Applications will be preserved for at least a few major releases to come for backward compatibility). As new versions of the application packs are released, you'll see the installer defaults changing to install into $AddOnsDirectory (or $UserAddOnsDirectory if the user account doesn't have write access to $AddOnsDirectory) by default. To your specific question...the full application pack documentation doesn't come with Mathematica, only the index does (which means that the only place it makes any difference is in the Master Index). Yes, you can feel free to delete those if you have the corresponding application pack installed. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Wed, 07 May 2003 08:33:51 -0400, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >OK, this now works as expected. > >Do you have a recommendation as to where Wolfram applications be stored >-- under [$TopDirectory]\AddOns\Applications or under >[$AddOnsDirectory]\Applications? > >For example, Mathematica distributions come with documentation, only, >for Wavelet Explorer, in > >[$TopDirectory]\AddOns\Applications\Wavelets\Documentation\English. > >But I have the actual Wavelet Explorer application, which I now have >installed in > >[$AddOnsDirectory]\Applications\Wavelets. > >Should I remove the documentation in the former location and leave it >just in the latter? In other words, where will the Help Browser look >first? > >Similar questions arise with respect to Astronomer, Calculus Wiz, etc. > > >John Fultz wrote: >>You can set the default value of the parent of $AddOnsDirectory and >>$UserAddOnsDirectory via an environment variable, which works for both >>FE >>and kernel. >> >>MATHEMATICA_ADDONS for $AddOnsDirectory >>MATHEMATICA_USERADDONS for $UserAddOnsDirectory