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Re: Re: change of default behavoir for workbench

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• Subject: [mg69119] Re: [mg69072] Re: [mg68973] change of default behavoir for workbench
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks for getting back to me on this.

If, by "nothing strange" the developer means that Mathematica executed
all the .m files in the project - versus only producing an error and
doing nothing, then I am still pointing out that execuing all the .m
files is a bad default behavior. Mathematica code is capable of doing
all sorts of things involving the file system. I respectfully submit
that when code that manipulates the file system can run inadvertently
because of a syntax error in .MathematicaResources (and because the
code is somewhere inside the project), I think that is a bad design.

It'd be similar to BASH executing all the programs in /usr/bin because
the user typed the wrong command name.

On 8/29/06, Bruce Miller <brucem at wolfram.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:03:55AM -0400, Chris Chiasson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If an error is encountered in .MathematicaResources, Wolfram Workbench
> > executes all *.m files in the project. I think this is horrible
> > behavior. I didn't loose any data because of it (that's what version
> > control is for), but I think this is a bad default setting. Also,
> > could someone please explain the accepted syntax of
> > .MathematicaResources in detail?
> >
> > --
> > http://chris.chiasson.name/
>
>
> Mr. Chiasson,
>
> A developer suggests,
> ======================================
> The .MathematicaResources file can (and should) be edited
> from the project properties pane.  Right click on the project
> folder, then choose properties, then you can edit the values
> in the Mathematica section of the pane.
>
> I tried to reproduce the user's report by making an error in
> that file, and nothing strange happened.
>
> Something that may have tripped him here is that notebooks in a
> project are set up to load all sources in the project when you
> launch them in run or debug mode.  This can be turned off by
> right clicking the notebook then unchecking the box for loading
> all files on startup.
>
> The accepted syntax for .MathematicaResources is to use the
> properties pane as I explained above.
> ======================================
>
> Bruce Miller
> Technical Support
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
> support at wolfram.com
> http://support.wolfram.com/
>
>
>
>


-- 
http://chris.chiasson.name/

• References:
  • change of default behavoir for workbench
    • From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>
  • Re: change of default behavoir for workbench
    • From: Bruce Miller <brucem@wolfram.com>