From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: "Loyall, David" <david.loyall@nebraska.gov>,
emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: We're doing it wrong. [WAS]: Zip utility on Windows for ODT exporter
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 13:15:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft-kn6coy+5yb4eaafJM2EuF3KxLU+j4KDeeaH29HzsxWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2u7bkfo.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I guess there's no time like the present for learning some lisp.
>
> :)
>
>> *If* I can figure out how to do this, it would be a simple variable to
>> set the name of the zip utility. I'd add documentation specific to
>> Windows linking to INFO-zip or some other utility, instructions, and
>> then to set the variable to "C:/path/to/zip.exe" instead of just
>> "zip."
>
> There are three occurrences of "zip" in ox-odt.el.
>
> But two of them come with switches (see lines 4101):
>
> (cmds `(("zip" "-mX0" ,target-name "mimetype")
> ("zip" "-rmTq" ,target-name "."))))
>
> Two problems: (1) I don't know what these switches do, and
> (2) I infer there are specific to zip.
>
> So you would need to find out if there are necessary and what
> equivalent switches are needed for other zip utilities. If they
> are not necessary, let's remove them. If these switches are the
> same for all zip utilities (we can dream, right?), let's only
> have an option `org-odt-zip-executable'.
That's what I want, but it has to allow for a specific path to get
around having to specifically add the zip utility on Windows to the
actual $PATH environment. I'd rather leave the switches along, as then
one doesn't have to figure out a bunch of other zip utility stuff.
The current documentation requires that one have a *nix-equivalent
(wrt syntax) zip utility, hence other mailing list suggestions to use
INFO-zip.
If we want to go another route, say allowing for 7zip, it would
require more more cases to check for the actual zip utility being
used. INFO-zip was simple enough, so I think it would be fair to have
the user download it, move zip.exe somewhere, and then point to it
with the variable.
>
> If they are pecualiar to zip, then maybe the option should be an
> alist of executables to search for, along with formatting strings
> for those two occurrences -- something like:
>
> (setq org-odt-zip-executable
> '(("zip" "zip -mX0 %s mimetype" "zip -rmTq %s .")))
>
>> *nix users could simply leave the default variable, "zip", or change
>> to a direct path as well if they wanted.
>
> Yes. The problem is with the switches. That would be too simple
> otherwise :) Let us know if you can come up with something that
> is good enough for you!
>
I'll keep thinking through it. For now, I got Windows working by
simply editing ox-odt directly and replacing zip with zip.exe :)
John
> --
> Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 14:06 We're doing it wrong. [WAS]: Zip utility on Windows for ODT exporter Loyall, David
2013-03-27 22:04 ` John Hendy
2013-04-06 0:10 ` Bastien
2013-04-06 17:56 ` John Hendy
2013-04-06 18:09 ` Bastien
2013-04-06 18:15 ` John Hendy [this message]
2013-04-06 18:19 ` Bastien
2013-04-06 20:54 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-07 7:50 ` Achim Gratz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-11 14:58 Loyall, David
2013-04-11 15:11 ` Bastien
2013-04-11 18:13 ` Achim Gratz
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