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Re: Re: Re: Player Pro and Packages

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• Subject: [mg87668] Re: [mg87596] Re: [mg87560] Re: Player Pro and Packages
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:52:33 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• References: <200841414219.886257@jfultz2winlap>
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

My concern is just the reverse of what your reply seems to address: I do 
NOT want packages within the locations to which MATHEMATICA_BASE and 
MATHEMATICA_USERBASE point to be sought first by Player Pro.

I want to be able to have a separate location for, say, an encoded 
version of a package that I'm running with Player Pro, and a 
source-visible package I use for development within Mathematica itself.

It sounds then like the only alternative would be to put the encoded 
version directly within the PlayerPro tree (is there an 
AddOns/Applications subdirectory?).  So...

Will that work -- will PlayerPro first search for a package within its 
own directory tree despite settings of MATHEMATICA_BASE and 
MATHEMATICA_USERBASE?

If not, that's really bad!

If so, that's only partly good: it still forces me to put such things as 
(encoded) packages within the PlayerPro tree that might get wiped out 
whenever I re-install or upgrade PlayerPro.



John Fultz wrote:
> Yes.  Although, in retrospect, we should have considered changing the names of 
> these environment variables for Player Pro.  We might decide to do this in a 
> future version, but for now, MATHEMATICA_BASE and MATHEMATICA_USERBASE will 
> function just fine.
> 
> For those who haven't noticed already (although most on this thread seem to have 
> realized it by now), the default values of $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory 
> are different from those in Mathematica, and so packages installed for 
> Mathematica will not, by default, show up for Player Pro (i.e., you'll have to 
> install Player Pro packages separately).
> 
> Sincerely,
>  
> John Fultz
> jfultz at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:42:20 -0400 (EDT), Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> Will Player Pro allow use of environment variables MATHEMATICA_BASE and
>> MATHEMATICA_USERBASE for finding packages -- as Mathematica itself does?
>>
>> David Bailey wrote:
>>> David Park wrote:
>>>> How many people have tried out Player Pro yet?
>>>>
>>>> I copied my private Applications folder over to the Player Pro folder
>>>> and
>>>> tried to run a notebook that used a private package. Player Pro found
>>>> the
>>>> style sheet that came with the package but did not find the package.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to incorporate a private package into Player Pro?
>>>> Without that it seems to be rather limited.
>>>>
>>> I put a package in the 'old' package location beneath the installation
>>> directory. This appeared to work, and did not even require that the
>>> package be encoded (as mentioned on the Wolfram website).
>>>
>>> David Bailey
>>> http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
> 
> 
> 

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