Auto discovery of helper apps
jrglasgow - April 24, 2008 - 00:31
| Project: | Search Files |
| Version: | 6.x-6.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | jrglasgow |
| Status: | closed |
Description
In the hook_install() function automatically configure helper apps, or at least try to. On servers running Linux you can use "which %appname" to locate the location of the app, then add the app to the database. This can be done for known helper apps, line pdftotext, cat, catdoc, etc...
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this has been committed: the helper apps that are auto detected and configured are listed in the image
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for the record, see search_files.install 1.10.2.11.
Thanks, James.
The auto-detection has large potential for failure, so better make "Autodetect" of helper applications an user choice, see
search_files.install revision 1.10.2.12
search_files.module revision 1.19.2.17
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