Re: [jokosher-devel] Autopackage of Jokosher

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

Taj Morton wrote:
> Questions:
> How does GStreamer locate its plugins? Does it just look in the prefix
> it was compiled for?

You can set system variables to tell Gstreamer to search for plugins in 
specific places. More info is available here:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gst-running.html

> How can I change the prefix that setup.py installs Jokosher into?

There are two ways to run Jokosher, locally and system-wide. This was 
done so that no setup or make is required to get an SVN checkout of 
Jokosher running.

To run it locally, no files need to be copied; they can just stay in the 
directory structure of the tarball. To launch Jokosher, just run the 
tarball-root/Jokosher/Jokosher script.

To run Jokosher system-wide in a custom path, you have to modify all the 
paths in the setup.py script as well as in the bin/jokosher script 
(which was not provided in the tarball).

From what I have read about autopackage, it is required to be 
relocatable so that the user can install it in their home directory if 
needed. I would suggest that you just run Jokosher with the local script 
and then everything can be contained within the same directory and no 
setup script will be necessary.

Laszlo