[tlbuild] asymptote search path

[John Bowman]

> > The asymptote manual says that ~/.asy/ is used as a search path for  
> > local additions for global Asymptote files. However, under MacTeX
> > 2009, this is now:
> >    ~/.texlive2009/texmf-config/asymptote/
> 
> I suspect this is true for the TeX Live builds too, since Dick (also
> cc'd) doesn't do anything different when he does the mac build of asy.
> 
> Evidently somehow TEXMFCONFIG is being used in kpathsea mode?  I don't
> get this and didn't have a chance to delve into the sources.  It seems
> like ~/.asy should be constant, independent of whether it's a kpathsea
> or "normal" build?

Hi Karl,

The manual already mentions that $TEXMFCONFIG/asymptote is used instead
under TeXLive: 

http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/doc/Configuring.html#Configuring

I would have prefered to consistently use ~/.asy too, but Tomek requested
the following change. The rationale is that asy writes to this directory
and ~/.asy might not be writeable (e.g. when using TL from a USB
stick).

We can easily revert this change though (or maybe use some environment
variable to make it optional?). Let me know what you prefer.

Regards,

-- John

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r4457 | jcbowman | 2009-06-26 00:19:00 -0600 (Fri, 26 Jun 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/asymptote/settings.cc

Use $TEXMFCONFIG/asymptote for configuration directory under TeXLive.


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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:53:03 +0100
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] asymptote build
From: T T <t34www at googlemail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it>
Cc: John Bowman <bowman at math.ualberta.ca>, kbrow1i at gmail.com, tlbuild at tug.org, 
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2009/6/25 Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it>:
> I have seen that on Cygwin, running
>
> $ asy.exe --version
>
> or something similar, creates the directory '.asy' in $USERPROFILE [1]
> and not in $HOME! Is this the right thing?

This draws my immediate attention. Is there a way to redirect that
.asy directory? We try to keep those things within our directory
structure so it's easier to manage.

Cheers,

Tomek

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:14:56 +0100
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] asymptote build
From: T T <t34www at googlemail.com>
To: John Bowman <bowman at math.ualberta.ca>
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On 25/06/2009, John Bowman <bowman at math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Outside of CYGWIN $USERPROFILE is the right place

It would be still preferable if everything could be contained within
TL directory structure. One of the reasons is portable use from USB
sticks that we want to support. If you write the settings under
$USERPROFILE in the best case scenario you will leave them behind and
in the worst case scenario you will overwrite settings from the local
installation, neither is desirable.

Cheers,

Tomek

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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:14 +0100
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] asymptote build
From: T T <t34www at googlemail.com>
To: John Bowman <bowman at math.ualberta.ca>
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On 25/06/2009, John Bowman <bowman at math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Isn't there already a HOME variable we can use or do you really need
> a new environment variable called ASYHOME.

No, it doesn't have to be ASYHOME. In fact, there is already
TEXMFCONFIG tree for configuration data.

Karl, WDYT? I've just made a change today to redirect TW settings to
$TEXMFCONFIG/texworks, so maybe $TEXMFCONFIG/asymptote to stay
consistent? Please advise when you get back on Sunday.

Cheers,

Tomek