[texworks] relative binary paths & local/global settings

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2009/6/22 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 22:02, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 1.) Is there any way to configure "binaryPaths=" relative to location
>> of texworks? Something similar to $selfautoloc in web2c dialect ...
>> The nice thing about it is that one would be able to double-click on
>> texworks application without configuring anything and get all the
>> paths properly set alredy (for some specific tex distibution that can
>> be moved around on drive, but has tex binaries on well defined
>> location relative to texworks).
>
> I take half of my question back. After removing "binaryPaths=" (with
> some meaningless setting) from texworks.ini, the location of
> texworks.exe is already in binary path (which is exactly what I wanted
> to achieve).
>
> If binaryPaths is already present in texworks.ini then defaultbinpaths
> in texwork-setup.ini made no difference and that was puzzling me a bit
> (visually the path was empty when I cheched in the program, but in
> reality there was binaryPaths=@invalid sitting in texworks.ini).

That's apparently how Qt represents an empty list, with '@invalid'
value, see http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/2009q2/000779.html

As for putting TeXworks together with other binaries, we rejected that
option for TeX Live. Apart from cluttering the bin dir there is also a
risk of dll conflicts if TeXworks is on the path because Windows uses
the same path for searching executables and dlls. For that reason we
will use a .bat wrapper in bin/win32.

This has an additional advantage that instead of using
texworks-setup.ini we can use environment variables TW_INIPATH &
TW_LIBPATH and specify the location of settings at run-time after
consulting kpsewhich. I don't know if that matters to you.

Cheers,

Tomek