[kepler-dev] [Bug 3898] - update .kepler instead of removing it between versions

[bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org]

http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898





------- Comment #11 from cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2009-09-18 11:08 -------
One possible solution would be to have the current devel version of kepler
use .kepler/2.0/ instead of .kepler/

I do like the idea of being able to pass in the .kepler directory as a command
line argument.  Java can take properties as a command line argument, so if
the .kepler directory was a property such as kepler.keplerDirectory, then
we could invoke java with something like 
-Dkepler.keplerDirectory=/users/me/.kepler-myversion



Chad writes:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> This is something we are currently working on for the 2.0 release. There is a bug here:
> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898
> 
> Unfortunately, the 1.0 directory will not have this functionality in the future.
> 
> Aaron Schultz (aschultz at nceas.ucsb.edu) is working on this and I think he could answer any questions you have better than I could.
> 
> Thanks,
> chad
> 
> 
> Michal Owsiak wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Is it possible to pass home directory as a parameter to Kepler?
>>
>> We are developing application for both: Kepler 1.0 and Kepler 1.x.
>>
>> At the moment we are forced to either remove .kepler home each time we
>> switch distribution or we have to create symbolic links. Not to mention
>> the possibility of running Kepler 1.0 and 1.x simultaneously.
>>
>> If there is some sort of argument/switch/parameter that allows to set
>> different .kepler location it would be great.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the info
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michal