Fwd: LILYPOND_DATADIR in 2.10

[Arjan Bos]

On 18 mrt 2007, at 5:32, Graham Percival wrote:

> > Did you know that instead of editing your .profile to set  
> > environment variables for that specific bash session,
>
> I don't understand -- modifying .profile will effect the  
> environment for every bash session.

It will, but you will have to startup the Terminal.app in order to  
get the environment variables.
I agree that .profile updating is simpler. But now your environment  
variables are set even if you start Lilypond, Emacs or jEdit from the  
Finder.

> > you can set them globally for every program by creating a  
> > environment.plist in ~/.MacOSX with the following content:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"  
> > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
> > <plist version="1.0">
> > <dict>
> >     <key>PATH</key>
> >     <string>/Users/arjanbos/bin:/sw/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ 
> > sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin</string> </dict>
> > </plist>
>
> The bash way (ie the standard unix way) looks a lot simpler.  In  
> addition, anybody familiar with unix will already know how to do it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham

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