[kepler-dev] [Bug 5065] In shared or administrative installations, the ability to store modules.txt and extra modules locally. This way, the module manager will work smoothly on Windows without having to run as an administrator.

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5065

--- Comment #1 from David Welker <david.v.welker at gmail.com> 2010-07-29 16:26:49 PDT ---
I think another approach would work better for the problem of permissions on
Windows. Moving modules to exist on multiple locations adds serious
complications in terms of collisions and limits the ability to work on multiple
checkouts. Also, it requires the creation of a registry to track module
locations. This is significantly more complicated than storing all modules in
the same location relative to the build. This also significantly complicates
the IDEs.

A better approach that I am going to research would be to see if Kepler can
interact with Windows to log the user in as an administrator if they use the
module manager and do not have the appropriate permissions.

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