Re: [Gnumed-devel] Portable GNUmed issue

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Dienstag 23 September 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > Maybe the portable could recognize when \.gnumed resides on a volume
> > that (being the hard drive) is different than the volume (the
> > portable drive) from which the software is being run. This might
> > permit both the GNUmed menu > "Exit" command as well as the exception
> > handler "Close GNUmed" buttons to delete \.gnumed as part of the exit
> > process. (?)
>
> There is no such thing as different "drive" under Unix. Determining whether
> something hangs off a different mount point is arbitrarily complex.

Yeah. But GNUmed can be told to write to a certain location. It could even 
test for the platform and handle things differently if on win32. I believe 
the only issue here is to tell gnumed not to make a directory .gnumed 
in /home/user or Windows equivalent but under a specified path. Which should 
be possible if we require that path to be within the gnumed subdirectory 
under windows or any path that is writeable by any windows user.


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