Unofficial DVM Windows Beta

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-06-04 22:57, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:isdk9m$t7p$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2011-06-04 17:38, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> Some notes:
>>>
>>> Calling dvm regardless of arguments always prints out this string at
>>> the bottom after any info before it:
>>> "The system cannot find the file specified."
>>>
>>> Calling with -h or --help doesn't print out anything.
>>> Calling dvm install or dvm fetch or dvm use without arguments throws
>>> an out of bounds exception.
>>>
>>> It might be useful to document where dvm installs DMD to (in appdata).
>>> Also, I'm thinking about any problems vista/win7 users might have with
>>> UAC, e.g. if UAC will attempt to block writing to the appdata folder.
>>> I'm just second-guessing though, I'm not too familiar with how it
>>> works.
>>
>> Maybe it should be installed in the users home directory instead. The user
>> should always be able to write to that directory. This is also where it's
>> installed on Posix platforms.
>>
>
> %APPDATA% *is* inside the user's home directory. It's typically something
> like:
>
> C:\Users\{User Name}\Application Data
>
> (Of course, with "Documents and Settings" instead of "Users" on XP. And
> possibly a different drive on different computers, etc...)

Ah, Ok.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg