[M3devel] cm3.cfg variables for IDE

[Tony Hosking]

It is not so much old-fashioned as consistent across platforms (Unix,  
Windows, etc.).  Ideally, the same install procedure and environment  
variables make sense on all platforms.  Don't fork the install for  
different platforms if at all possible.

On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Jay wrote:

> There are other ways to do this...rather than run iexplore, you can  
> use ShellExecute and run a url or something, or find the clsid of  
> mshtml.dll maybe. For wordpad, again ShellExecute wil tend to find  
> it. Notice how if you say start.run and type wordpad, it finds it?  
> Or "start wordpad" from the command line? "start" ~ ShellExecute,  
> instead of CreateProcess. "Shell" meaning the GUI shell -- Windows  
> Explorer.
>
> Wordpad and notepad stink as text editors. And notepad doesn't like  
> Unix newlines. I assume that's why wordepad.
> Someting should be done, like, in the grand gui installer, where it  
> lists some freeware/shareware editors and offers to download and  
> install and set them as the editor for you. Stuf like TextEdit,  
> TextPad, UltraEdit...I think all of those exist, though somewhat  
> I'm guesing based on the obvious formula. :)
> As well if it locate msdev or devenv that would be super.
>
> As I was saying the other day, I believe msdev and devenv are  
> easily findable via normal installs, except not on my machines. :)  
> I need to go through the environment you sent.
>
> The way this stuff works in Modula-3 today is..unnecessarily old  
> fashioned...I'm all for simplicity, but having a bajillion  
> environment variables does not seem to be the thing. Or a bajillion  
> line user editor text files. Or short file names anywhere! Just do  
> a backup/restore and see if those names survive. They might. They  
> might not. Oh well, true, nobody ever backs anything up. Still,  
> xcopy your software from one machine to another and see if the  
> paths still work -- definitely it's hard to do that for free, but  
> you can keep the cost down.
>
>  - Jay
>
>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:15:42 -0500From: rcoleburn at scires.comTo:  
> jayk123 at hotmail.comCC: m3devel at elegosoft.comSubject: cm3.cfg  
> variables for IDE
>
> Jay:
>
> I thought I should let you know what I understand to be the  
> variables that the IDE is looking to find in cm3.cfg.  That way, as  
> you work through any changes to the various cm3.cfg, you can make  
> sure these requirements are met