Re: startup plugins from more than one folder on the menu

Posted by dscho on Oct 18, 2013; 8:51pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/startup-plugins-from-more-than-one-folder-on-the-menu-tp5005223p5005250.html

Hi Curtis,

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> > In Fiji (actually, ImageJ2's legacy layer), we also added support for
> > $HOME/.plugins/
> ...
> > If you do not like that location, you can override it by setting the
> > system property ij1.plugin.dirs
>
> Thanks for the reminder! To document all this, I created a new page on the
> wiki:
>
>     http://fiji.sc/Plugins

Thanks!

> Unfortunately, I had some trouble getting the .plugins folder and the
> ij1.plugins.dir system property override to work properly on my OS X
> system:
>
> - When I put a plugin in $HOME/.plugins and launched Fiji, it was not
> discovered.
>
> - The following command run from $HOME still did not find the plugin:
>     $FIJI/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx -Dij1.plugin.dirs=$HOME/.plugins
>
> - The same command run from $HOME/.plugins *did* find it, but did not find
> the system plugins anymore.
>
> - So then I tried the following, also from $HOME/.plugins, and it worked:
>     $FIJI/Contents/MacOS/ImageJ-macosx
> -Dij1.plugin.dirs=$FIJI/jars:$FIJI/plugins:$HOME/.plugins
>
> But the fact that the invocation is sensitive to your CWD seems like a bug
> to me. Agreed?

Whoa. Yep, that is definitely at least one bug. Darn. I thought that the
unit test I wrote specifically to test this would make sure that it works.

I will spend some time on Monday to debug this.

Ciao,
Dscho

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